installing applications

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 10/28/06, Cheatah 0#@!^ <cheataah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm mailing this problem of mine for the third time, but no response,
> > i'm not able to install any new applications due to this problem. pls
> > help.
> >
> >
> > When i try to select "ADD or REMOVE........." from the k-menu in my
> > kubuntu 6.06 it shows an error message like this-
> > "The APT Database could not be opened! This may be caused by incorrect
> > APT configuration or some similar problem. Try running apt-setup and
> > apt-get update in terminal and see if it helps to resolve the
> > problem".
> > i also tried it in the terminal, the error message there is that it
> > cant find lib.....
> > what is the problem?? how can i solve it??
> >
>
> Are you running the program with root privleges ?
>
> sudo apt-get update
> passwd:
>
>
>
> yes i am. the error message reads like this-
> E: Type 'libxine-extraodec' is not known on line 1 in source list
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> E: The list of sources could not be read.

Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list please? Sounds like it has
become scrambled somehow.

-Eamonn