since last week unable to get any updates !

Up till last week - updates were hapening as they should, then it stopped working ang all i get is the following error message :sad:

Can anyone advise please ?


"Could not initialise the package information

An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package information.

Please report this bug for the 'update-manager' package and try to include the following error message:

'E:Type ‘ain’ is not known on line 3 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aheck-ppa-precise.list' "

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Originally Posted by creature1963

Up till last week - updates were hapening as they should, then it stopped working ang all i get is the following error message :sad:

Can anyone advise please ?


"Could not initialise the package information

An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package information.

Please report this bug for the 'update-manager' package and try to include the following error message:

'E:Type ‘ain’ is not known on line 3 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aheck-ppa-precise.list' "

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Post output for

Code:

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aheck-ppa-precise.list

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think this is what you want ? but not to clued up on ubuntu behind the scenes stuff

mr-creature@Bigdaddy:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aheck-ppa-precise.list
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/aheck/ppa/ubuntu precise main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/aheck/ppa/ubuntu precise main
ain
mr-creature@Bigdaddy:~$

You need to edit file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aheck-ppa-precise.list, and remove line 3, which contains only the letters "ain".

ok silly question - how do i edit the file ?

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Originally Posted by creature1963

think this is what you want ? but not to clued up on ubuntu behind the scenes stuff

mr-creature@Bigdaddy:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aheck-ppa-precise.list
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/aheck/ppa/ubuntu precise main
# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/aheck/ppa/ubuntu precise main
ain
mr-creature@Bigdaddy:~$

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As the url lines are both commented out,you are not using the PPA,so it might be a good idea to delete it.

Code:

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sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aheck-ppa-precise.*

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and then run

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sudo apt-get update

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and see if you still get the problem.

Good Luck

Here's how I would do it, there are other ways:

1. Open up a terminal
2. Type in
   Code:

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   sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aheck-ppa-precise.list

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   You might be asked for your password: don't panic if nothing shows when you are typing, this is normal.
3. Remove line 3
4. Press Ctrl+x
5. Done!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by lisati

Here's how I would do it, there are other ways:

1. Open up a terminal
2. Type in
   Code:

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   sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aheck-ppa-precise.list

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   You might be asked for your password: don't panic if nothing shows when you are typing, this is normal.
3. Remove line 3
4. Press Ctrl+x
5. Done!

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the line came back - so i unticked the ppa in the update manager and is now downloading 12 days worth of updates - many thanks Lisati

Solved :)