please ignore ....i managed to fix it in the end!!!<br><br>thanks for yur help!! :)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/04/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Oakley</b> <<a href="mailto:andrew@aoakley.com">andrew@aoakley.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Javad Ayaz wrote:<br> > 'E:Malformed line 40 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse),<br> > E:The list of sources could not be read.'! "<br> <br> <br>Your /etc/apt/sources.list file has become corrupt (maybe you added a<br>
new repository which wasn't valid, or edited it by hand?).<br> <br> Please can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list file and we'll have a<br> look. You can do this by going into Applications - Accessories -<br> Terminal and typing:<br>
<br> cat /etc/apt/sources.list<br> <br> ...and then copy & paste. Also, which version of Ubuntu are you using?<br> You can find this out by doing:<br> <br> cat /etc/lsb-release<br> <br> --<br> Andrew Oakley<br> <br><br>
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