update manager

[thefuneralafterparty]

Hello, new to ubuntu and somethings up with my update manager. theres an alert icon in the right hand corner and its bugging me.. it has the the following error message:



Could not initialize the package information

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

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

'E:Type 'n' is not known on line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-wine-ppa-lucid.list, E:The list of sources could not be read.'




...Also, its not letting me add/remove software through the command line nor software center. ANY IDEAS, SMART PEOPLE???

[davidmohammed]

suggest

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

look through that file

add a # at the beginning of the line that has "wine-ppa" embedded in it

save

sudo apt-get update

[plucky]

'E:Type 'n' is not known on line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-wine-ppa-lucid.list, E:The list of sources could not be read.'


The file is in directory /etc/apr/sources.list.d and is called ubuntu-wine-ppa-lucid.list

To see what the file contains
cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-wine-ppa-lucid.list

to edit the file
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-wine-ppa-lucid.list and remove the n in line 2

Or just un-tick the box in Software Sources

Good Luck

[thefuneralafterparty]

thanks david and plucky. problem: solved