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    Unhappy software centre doesn start any more

    I've tried to install skype in ubuntu 12.04 like this:

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Skype

    After the first step thinks have taken a turn for the worse however. At the moment I can't open the software centre any more. I have an error message in the top right of task bar that reads:

    An error occurred, Please run Package Manager from the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what's wrong. The error message was: 'Error: Opening the cache (E: Malformed line 56 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse), E:The list of sources could not be read., E:The package list or status file could not be parsed or opened.)'. This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies

    line 56 in the sources.list file now reads:

    deb http://archive.canonical.com/ partner

    what am I missing here?

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    Re: software centre doesn start any more

    Quote Originally Posted by Sander Malschaert View Post
    I've tried to install skype in ubuntu 12.04 like this:

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Skype

    After the first step thinks have taken a turn for the worse however. At the moment I can't open the software centre any more. I have an error message in the top right of task bar that reads:

    An error occurred, Please run Package Manager from the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what's wrong. The error message was: 'Error: Opening the cache (E: Malformed line 56 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse), E:The list of sources could not be read., E:The package list or status file could not be parsed or opened.)'. This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies

    line 56 in the sources.list file now reads:

    deb http://archive.canonical.com/ partner

    what am I missing here?

    It should be
    Code:
    deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner
    Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file and correct

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    Re: software centre doesn start any more

    It looks like I have to log in as root to do so since atm I don have the permissions. Or is there a better way to circumvent this?

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    Re: software centre doesn start any more

    Quote Originally Posted by Sander Malschaert View Post
    It looks like I have to log in as root to do so since atm I don have the permissions. Or is there a better way to circumvent this?
    Why do you have to login as root?

    Can you not use
    Code:
    gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
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    Re: software centre doesn start any more

    @plucky Thanks for the help! I used "sudo gedit" command to edit sources.list and software centre is working fine again. Funny thing is that I still don't see skype in the software centre. I'll consider this one solved though.

    edit: you may have noticed that I'm at the bottom end of my ubuntu learning curve here No worries though I'll get there in the end.
    Last edited by Sander Malschaert; December 18th, 2012 at 11:22 PM.

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    Re: software centre doesn start any more

    Funny thing is that I still don't see skype in the software centre. I'll consider this one solved though.
    Skype should be in the Partner repository,so if you open Software Sources and make sure the Partner repository is enabled and then run
    Code:
    sudo apt-get update
    it should then appear in Software Centre

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