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Article #963Re: help this pops up when i go to use update manager
From: gary
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:26
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:26
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gary wrote: > James C wrote: >> On 23/07/08 20:52, gary wrote: >>>> Could not initialize the package information >>>> >>>> A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package >>>> information. >>>> >>>> Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and >>>> include the following error message: >>>> >>>> 'E:Type 'βdeb' is not known on line 70 in source list >>>> /etc/apt/sources.list, E:The list of sources could not be read.' >>> >>> Hi all I have no idea what this means but i do not think its a good >>> thing and am wondering how i fix it i am not real good >>> >>> with computer talk so if someone would kindly tell me how to fix it >>> would be tops thanks Gary >>> >>> P.S.sorry my english is poor but that it is a new language to me >> >> Try this: run >> >> gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list >> >> If line 70 starts with the text >> >> "deb >> >> then delete the " >> >> If it ends with " delete the final " too. > can you please tell me what line 70 means ? as i have no idea thanks > again gary Wow thanks James C I looked down all the text and saw a "deb and the sentence ended with a " deleted them " and it fixed the problem I have no idea what I did but with your help it fixed it once again thanks much Gary
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X-Google-Thread: 102983,6a67583da13b289b X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:26:11 +1000 From: gary <glralph@tpg.com.au> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux Subject: Re: help this pops up when i go to use update manager References: <48870d5b$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <XLEhk.21922$IK1.18079@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <48871d2a@dnews.tpgi.com.au> In-Reply-To: <48871d2a@dnews.tpgi.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.243.171.251 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.243.171.251 Message-ID: <48872364$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> X-Trace: dnews.tpgi.com.au!tpg.com.au 1216815972 123.243.171.251 (23 Jul 2008 22:26:12 +1000) Lines: 39 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!nntp.gblx.net!nntp3.phx1!dnews.tpgi.com.au!tpg.com.au!not-for-mail