<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 August 2018 at 22:50, Gene Heskett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gheskett@shentel.net" target="_blank">gheskett@shentel.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">...<br>
</div></div>If gedit was used on that file before, all bets are off and it may <br>
contain most anything but a valid sources.list now. I've had that happen <br>
too many times Colin, and nuked gedit from all my systems going on about <br>
2 years ago now. Neither nano, nor geany (needs X) has ever trashed a <br>
file. 60 lines is in fact a possibility, but the usual install is less <br>
than 20, and this user is not a "power" user, so 60 lines also raised a <br>
red flag for me.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have never had any problems with gedit, though one must never use it with sudo of course, being a graphical app. The default sources.list on 18.04 has 51 lines so where your 'less than 20' comes from I don't know. The guy followed some duff instructions on how to install something I believe and that is how it got messed up.</div><div><br></div><div>Colin<br></div><br></div></div></div>