Problem w/ Software Updater, how to run Package Manager...Help

[Colin Law]

On 2 August 2018 at 02:48, djlafond via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Software Updater won't run at all & i got the following error message in
> the drop-down below the warning icon, red circle with the horizontal white
> bar through it.
>
> An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu or
> apt-get in a terminal window to see what went wrong. The error message was:
> ‘Error: Opening the cache (E:Malformed entry 60 in list file
> /etc/apt/sources.list (Component), E:The list of sources could not be
> read.)’. This usually means that your installed packages have unmet
> dependencies.
>

In a terminal run

sudo apt clean

to clear the cache, then

sudo apt update

If that runs without error then

sudo apt upgrade

to upgrade any packages that are out of date.

Colin
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