Hi Al The problem is fixed and I now have Skype up and running. Ubuntu was right and I was wrong. I had mistyped http//:instead of http:// and after correcting this there was another typo! When at last these blunders were corrected all went smoothly.<br> <br>Remind me not to seek employment as a typist!<br><br>Best<br><br>Benjy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 May 2010 12:49, Alan Pope <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@popey.com">alan@popey.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 3 May 2010 12:43, Anthony Coyle <<a href="mailto:coyle.anthony@gmail.com">coyle.anthony@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > On running sudo apt-get I still got malformed line 55 in sources list<br> ><br> <br> </div>It's quite self-explanatory really. Line 55 of the file<br> /etc/apt/sources.list makes no sense to apt-get.<br> <br> You probably pasted a line in and it was either truncated, split over<br> multiple lines or in some other way broken.<br> <br> Simply do the following:-<br> <br> ALT+F2<br> gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list<br> <br> In the text editor scroll down to line 55. The line should either<br> start with a hash symbol indicating a comment, or the word "deb" or<br> "deb-src". It may be that its a continuation of the line above.<br> <br> To fix it you need to know what the line should be.<br> Let us know what you have. You could also copy and paste the entire<br> file from the editor into <a href="http://paste.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank">http://paste.ubuntu.com/</a> and let us have the<br> link so we can look at it.<br> <br> Cheers,<br> Al.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>