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anshuls767
January 1st, 2011, 08:13 PM
i am not able to open synaptic package manager. on opening an error message is prompted as
"
E: Malformed line 48 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.
"
please help
As s result of this i am not able to install any softwares

mörgæs
January 1st, 2011, 08:22 PM
Hi, welcome to the fora.

Please post sources.list.

karthick87
January 1st, 2011, 08:32 PM
Post the output of,


cat /etc/apt/sources.list

anshuls767
January 2nd, 2011, 06:50 AM
cat: /et: No such file or directory
cat: /apt/sources.list: No such file or directory

garvinrick4
January 2nd, 2011, 07:02 AM
copy and paste the code in post #3 you have not typed it right.