[SOLVED] Unable to start Synaptic

[ancient_ee]

In trying to upgrade VirtualBox to V2.10, I added http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html to my Synaptic source list. Now Synaptic will not start. The error message is:

An error occurred.
The following details are provided:

E: Malformed line 56 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

I am sure there is a text file somewhere that must be edited. Please point me to it.

[taurus]

You need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list


gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and remove that line that you added in, line 56. Then, save it and close down gedit editing window. Now run


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

[ancient_ee]

Thanks!