[Bug 890344] Re: Update manager "Could not initialise the package information"

[Brian Murray]

The bug as it was originally reported by hanx9999 was about a malformed
entry in a sources.list file this may have been created by add-apt-
repository so I am moving the bug to the software-properties package
which provides add-apt-repository.

The other issue adde by Paulo sounds like an incorretly formatted file
for the medibuntu paa and that file should be deleted or fixed to be
properly formatted.

** Package changed: update-manager (Ubuntu) => software-properties
(Ubuntu)

** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => New

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Title:
  Update manager "Could not initialise the package information"

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome shell and i was just after adding the
  following repositories in Terminal and i noticed the source list would
  not update.

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/testing

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3

  On opening update-manager I got the following error message.

  Could not initialise the package information

  An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package
  information.

  Please report this bug for the 'update-manager' package and try to
  include the following error message:

  'W:Ignoring file 'getdeb.list.bck' in directory
  '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension,
  E:Type ‘//ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu’ is not known on
  line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gnome3-team-
  gnome3-oneiric.list, E:The list of sources could not be read.,
  W:Ignoring file 'getdeb.list.bck' in directory
  '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension,
  W:Ignoring file 'getdeb.list.bck' in directory
  '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension,
  E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

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