Synaptic

[Andrew Mathenge]

So you have a dual-boot system right? But you're currently booted into
Ubuntu.

Well, try the following:

1. Open a Terminal
2. Type in the following command to switch to the /etc/apt folder

            cd /etc/apt

3. Type in the following command to get a list of the files there

            ls -l

4. Copy the output of this command from the Terminal and paste it in the
reply email to the list so that we can see what's there

5. Also, type in the following command:

            echo $PATH

6. Copy the output of that command and send it as well.

Let's see where we go from there.

Andrew.

On Dec 21, 2007 9:01 PM, Laurie Bell <lveeb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> This happened before and I reinstalled everything.I also have Vista on
> hard drive,need a couple of things there until I master Ubuntu.Real pain
> to re-install everything. Joys of computing.smile
>
>
> UBUNTU - I am what I am because of who we all are.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 8:45:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Synaptic
>
> 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
> >
> > UBUNTU - I am what I am because of who we all are.
> >
> >
> > ----- 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
> > >
> > > UBUNTU - I am what I am because of who we all are.
> > >
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