Synaptic

[Andrew Mathenge]

How about trying:

       gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and then copying the text?

Very strange that the "cat" command could not be found. Very strange.

Andrew.

On Dec 21, 2007 8:33 PM, Laurie Bell <lveeb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> It said command not found
>
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dylan McCall <dylanmccall at gmail.com>
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 8:19:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Synaptic
>
> The first thing we should do is check out sources.list. Could you post the
> output of "cat /etc/apt/sources.list", so we can see what may be wrong with
> line 56?
>
> Bye.
> -Dylan McCall
>
> On Dec 21, 2007 5:07 PM, Laurie Bell <lveeb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Merry Christmas All,
> > I opened Synaptic and got this message.
> >                E: malformed line 56 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
> > (absolute Dist)
> > E: the list of sources could not be read.
> > Go to repository dialog to correct the problem.
> > E:_cache->open()failed, please report.
> >
> > How do I fix this?
> > Thanks
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