[Bug 673315] Re: could not initialize the package information

[Robert Roth]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 108601 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108601

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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 108601
   Update-manager needs help info when terminating on wrong repositories and generally deal better with incorrect sources.list data

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Title:
  could not initialize the package information

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs

  my OS ubuntu 10.10 , when i going to open update manager.i got this
  error massage.what should i do??

  An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
  Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
  'E:Malformed line 61 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)'

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