Synaptic and Ubuntu Software Center crash

[userfriendly1992]

Synaptic and Ubuntu Software Center keeps crashing. I get these following messages:


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[userfriendly1992]

And for what it's worth, I am running Ubuntu 12.04

[Elfy]

It appears that you have source list issues - it would have been easier to move the System error box

No matter - please make sure software centre or synaptic are closed, open a terminal with Ctrl Alt T then run

sudo apt-get update

It will ask for password - when you type it - it will not appear, this is normal.

Once apt-get has run please copy and paste the WHOLE output to a new post

Please use code tags - if you are using New Reply button - highlight text and use the # button in the text box header.

If using Quick Reply then [code] at the beginning and [/code] at the end.

[userfriendly1992]

E: Malformed line 6 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.

Did do that correctly? I sincerely apologize, I am somewhat new. (I have ran Linux on several computers) However I have never had these kinds of issues..

[Elfy]

Yep that's fine

Lines in sources.list should on ever be deb deb-source or # you've got something wrong at line 6

Run

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

from term and paste it all here please

[userfriendly1992]

# /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ partner

[Paqman]

Go into Software Sources and uncheck the partner repository, then try your update again. If that works, try re-enabling the partner repo and do another update.

[userfriendly1992]

Go into Software Sources and uncheck the partner repository, then try your update again. If that works, try re-enabling the partner repo and do another update.

How do I go about doing that?

[userfriendly1992]

E: Malformed line 6 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.

This what I got after running: sudo apt-get update

[userfriendly1992]

I also ran Update Manager and ran into the same errors as Synaptic and Ubuntu Software Center.