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gary wrote:
> 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 '�deb' 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 

That would have been line 70. Most editors don't show line numbers 
unless you select it in the options.

In gedit, if you go to Edit->Preferences , you'll see a box you can tick 
to show line numbers. If you click on that you'll see line numbers when 
you're editing a file. Most of the time it's not useful though, which is 
why it's disabled by default.

It sounds like the problem was caused by whoever created that 
sources-list file. They put "s in it when they shouldn't have. So when 
update-manager tried to use the information in the file, it couldn't 
because it was wrong. Deleting those "s has fixed it.



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