Alexander-- I just got back and couldn't find you on the Ubuntu pages (I have difficulty navigating them) so, since our conversation was echoed on my yahoo account ( bscl...@yahoo.com) I am just replying to your last entry email(hope that is allowed).
I did as you suggested with sudo apt-get update and got this error: E: Malformed line 43 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse) I also note that when I open Ubuntu I have a red circle with a white minus sign in the top toolbar (not the correct term I know) at top of my screen. When I point my cursor at that, I get a bubble with this same error message with the suggestion that there might be a dependency problem...notice, too, that this is the message that I put into my original bug report (which I guess wasn't a bug, but the message said to report it and I didn't know where to do that) I get similar error messages when I try to open Update Manager and when I try to open Synaptic... I'm afraid I messed up my computer somehow when I tried to download and install Java from the Java site using the directions they give on-line for doing that. I did download the java .bin file to my desktop, but the steps they gave did not complete the install. Thanks, Bruce --- On Fri, 8/13/10, Alexander Lancey <a...@alexandos.org> wrote: > From: Alexander Lancey <a...@alexandos.org> > Subject: [Bug 617657] Re: I get this when I try to open Synaptic...it doesn't > say where to repoort it so here it is: E: malformed line 43 in source list > /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 > To: bscl...@yahoo.com > Date: Friday, August 13, 2010, 10:41 PM > Try opening a terminal and running > "sudo apt-get update". This will refresh the system's list > of software. Most software management actions do this > themselves, but if it was not done during your test, the > system would not realize it was fixed. > If there's any errors, paste them here, but with any luck > you're good. > > -- > I get this when I try to open Synaptic...it doesn't say > where to repoort it so here it is: E: malformed line 43 in > source list /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://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/617657 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct > subscriber > of the bug. > -- I get this when I try to open Synaptic...it doesn't say where to repoort it so here it is: E: malformed line 43 in source list /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://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/617657 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
