On 12/17/2018 02:15 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 12/16/2018 10:15 PM, David wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 06:04, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> 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
[snipped]
Whats my problem?
TIA
Reading the URL you provided above, under the heading
ONE-LINE-STYLE FORMAT
we find this text:
"If options should be provided they are separated by spaces and
all of them together are enclosed by square brackets ([]) included
in the line after the type separated from it with a space."
Yes that is worth at least one facepalm.
That's evidently not my only problem. It will require a fresh clean
install to check out.
There are two problems:
1. There's a problem of some sort with /media/richard/debian9/dvd1
itself -- investigating.
2. There's a side effect of originally installing system from DVD(s).
Synaptic when doing "Edit->Reload Package Information" will not
accept there be any existing reference to DVD(s) in sources.list.
