Screwed up repository...

[Bentenrai]

I was trying to install wine, following the direct instructions from these very pages, and now I get this error when I try to go into Synaptic.


E: Type '--20:46:50--' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.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.

Here's my sources.list.


# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04.1 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080702.1)]/ hardy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
deb-src http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb-src http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb-src http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://cu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-hardy/ubuntu hardy main

Any ideas? It says line one but.... WTF there isn't anything on line 1. This is bull. any help would be appreciated.

[oldos2er]

As the error message says, the problem is not /etc/apt/sources.list, but /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list.

[Bentenrai]

Wow.... I missed that. well thanks, I'll look into it!

[Bentenrai]

Okay so I found the problem but for some reason it won't let me edit or delete the winehq.list file! It says I don't have permission. I opened a terminal and did it by command line, triple checking the info I put in and guess what? Still nothing! It gives me the same error and when I check the file the piece of crap hasn't changed! What gives?

[Bentenrai]

Okay here's the content of my winehq.list...


--22:08:26-- http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list
=> `hardy.list.1'
Resolving wine.budgetdedicated.com... 81.171.111.184
Connecting to wine.budgetdedicated.com|81.171.111.184|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 180 [text/plain]

0K 100% 4.95 MB/s

22:08:26 (4.95 MB/s) - `hardy.list.1' saved [180/180]

It says the error is for the first line. The part that says --22:08:26--.
Any help would be great.

[lemming465]

Somehow you have output from a command line HTTP session pretending to be an sources.list(5) style file. I'm not sure what messed up to produce that. Quick fix:

sudo rm -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

For more information on the correct format of a sources.list file, see man sources.list

[Bentenrai]

fixed it myself. I had a really hard time figuring out and I looked for helpa lot of places and recieved little. It seems a lot of people have problems like this. my method was to throw the letters gksu in front of the command I was using to open the document for editing. this allowed me to edit it and not worry about permissions! :-)

[Bentenrai]

Somehow you have output from a command line HTTP session pretending to be an sources.list(5) style file. I'm not sure what messed up to produce that. Quick fix:
Code:

sudo rm -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

For more information on the correct format of a sources.list file, see man sources.list

Thanks a lot. i should've thought to do that in the first place but rm didn't come to mind. :-)