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hijiz
December 9th, 2010, 01:52 AM
so ive been using ubuntu for nearly six months now. so i installed cairo dock and screenlets and restarted the computer but now the upgrade manager wont work it loads about 75% and then it says
an unresolvable problem occured while initializing the package information.

and the error message says
E:Malformed line 58 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)'

thanks in advanced

bwhite82
December 9th, 2010, 02:07 AM
Can you post the contents of your sources.list or attach it to a post here. Sounds like something is screwy in your sources.list, should be an easy fix.

sikander3786
December 9th, 2010, 09:30 AM
Can you post the contents of your sources.list or attach it to a post here. Sounds like something is screwy in your sources.list, should be an easy fix.
We need to see the output of this command from Applications > Accessories > Terminal.


cat /etc/apt/sources.list

While posting, click the # icon in post menu and paste your text in between the generated code tags.