Unable to update

Question

when i go into terminal and type in sudo apt-get update, the response is: E: Malformed line 64 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse) E: Type ‘

can this be fixed?

ztik · Answer 1 · 2014-12-04T21:01:00.953

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Edit file /etc/apt/sources.list

$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Got to line 64 and fix the error. If you can not find the error, comment the line. A commented line starts with #.

The deb lines should look like

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ <dist> <section>`

Where

dist : precise, utopic, ...
section : universe, main, partner, ...

Please refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine

edited Dec 04 '14 at 21:01

answered Dec 04 '14 at 17:47

ztik

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on line 64 it says 'deb http://archive.canonical.com/precise partner' – kiara83936 Dec 04 '14 at 18:47
I would try to add `http://` and a `space` before `precise` `deb http://archive.canonical.com/ precise partner` – ztik Dec 04 '14 at 20:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 04 '14 at 20:01

To fix this issue, just do a backup of your existing "sources.list" available in the location : /etc/apt/

Steps to backup source.list,

1. Open the terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T

2. cd /etc/apt/

3. sudo cp source.list /etc/apt/source.list.bak 

4. sudo sed -i -e '64d' /etc/apt/sources.list (this deletes the problematic line)

5. sudo apt-get update (this updates the database)

hopefully this should fixes the issue - if not, please revert back the source file with the bak file we created in step 3.

after doing these steps E: Type ‘ – kiara83936 Dec 04 '14 at 22:17 — kiara83936, Dec 04 '14 at 22:17

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