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sidheart
June 26th, 2008, 10:04 PM
I by mistake updated my 8.04 with some feisty mediubuntu repos

Now when I go to synaptics package manager i get the following error

E: Type '<!DOCTYPE' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
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 someone help me out

tamoneya
June 26th, 2008, 10:10 PM
lets just take a look at the file and edit manually. Run all the following commands in terminal.

1. Backup the file in case we really screw up:
sudp cp /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list.bak

2. Post the contents of the file to the forum:
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.listThen copy out of gedit and into the terminal so we can help you find the errors.

Also a title of "someone please help me out" is very useless. Next time make it something more like: "E: Type '<!DOCTYPE' is not known"

wolfen69
June 26th, 2008, 10:14 PM
do this:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.listthen just remove every line that has medibuntu in it. save file and
sudo apt-get update

sidheart
June 26th, 2008, 10:17 PM
I went and manually removed the medibuntu lists using the terminal.It worked.
anyways thanks
and yes will be careful

sidheart
June 26th, 2008, 10:18 PM
I went and manually removed the medibuntu lists using the terminal.It worked.
anyways thanks
and yes will be careful about the title in the future