Richard Owlett wrote: > My sources.list has lines of the form > deb trusted=yes file:/media/richard/debian9/dvd1 stable main contrib > > When using Synaptic's "Edit->Reload Package Information" the error > message is: >> E: Malformed entry 3 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (URI parse) >> E: The list of sources could not be read. >> Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem. >> E: _cache->open() failed, please report. > > https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/apt/sources.list.5.en.html states >> Uses the archive stored locally (or NFS mounted) at /home/apt/debian >> for stable/main, stable/contrib, and stable/non-free. >> >> deb file:/home/apt/debian stable main contrib non-free >> > It also states: >> The format for two one-line-style entries using the deb and deb-src types is: >> >> deb [ option1=value1 option2=value2 ] uri suite [component1] [component2] >> [...] > > > https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/apt/sources.list.5.en.html states: >> THE DEB AND DEB-SRC TYPES: OPTIONS >> Each source entry can have options specified to modify which source is >> accessed and how data is acquired from it. Format, syntax and names of the >> options vary between the one-line-style and deb822-style formats as >> described, but they both have the same options available. For simplicity we >> list the deb822 fieldname and provide the one-line name in brackets. > > and later states: >> •Trusted ( trusted) is a tri-state value which defaults to APT deciding if a >> source is considered trusted or if warnings should be raised before e.g. >> packages are installed from this source. > > Whats my problem? > TIA
let's see that file. my guess is that you're missing a / character on that line, but perhaps there's a strange character in there or something. if you ever suspect a strange character in a file use od to examine it. songbird
