The message about the updates means that the update manager is now able to parse the file and found updates for your system. It seems the wrong line is now removed and everything should work again.
-- update-manager crashes. E: Malformed line 80 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse), E: The list of sources could not be read. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198823 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