I've Done Something Silly with Sources

[yizrahomme]

Hi,

I seem to have inadvertantly removed 'source code' or something.

Here's what I did. I was trying to install 'Sound Convertor' from software-center, as a friend had asked me to convert some m4a into MP3. I couldn't install it, as there was a warning about 'packets', so I went into software-center, and did Edit - Sources.

To cut a long story short, I screwed up, and now can't install anything. Mea culpa. Also, there's a red triangle with an exclamation mark at the top of the screen.

Can anyone help me to get it back? Oh, and I'm in the UK, FYI.

Thanks.

[elliotbeken]

What release of ubuntu is it (e.g. ubuntu 11.04 32bit)...

You could just get someone elses sources and copy them into yours.

Then run:
sudo apt-get update

[yizrahomme]

What release of ubuntu is it (e.g. ubuntu 11.04 32bit)...

You could just get someone elses sources and copy them into yours.

Then run:
sudo apt-get update

Thanks for the reply.

12.04 LTS.

EDIT: 32 bit.

How do I get someone else's sources?

[wojox]

Try this:

sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup
sudo apt-get update

[yizrahomme]

Try this:

sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup
sudo apt-get update

Hmm, well that's a bit better, thanks for that. I still can't install Sound Convertor, the message being: Depends python-gnome2 but it won't be installed and Depends: python-glade2 but it won't be installed.

[wojox]

Do you have Restricted Extras installed?

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt-get install soundconverter

Post back the errors.