OK.....Software Sources done got up and disappeared.

[Got2thinkin]

Most likely a knucklehead question.

Can’t seam to find a way to alleviate this problem. After upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10 certain processes are uninstalled...which is fine........conflicts
I chose the servers to which i do my stuff online. Use Software Sources to do this.

Tried starting Updates and received this notice..........

Failed to load the package list
This is a serious problem. Try again later. If this problem appears again, please report an error to the developers.

Details:
E:Type 'wget' is not known on line 53 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list

Thought it might be a server so tried to start Software Sources.....(Nuttin)!

Question:
How can I edit (source list) of that bad line? IDK
Thanks in advance.

[idoitprone]

Most likely a knucklehead question.

Can’t seam to find a way to alleviate this problem. After upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10 certain processes are uninstalled...which is fine........conflicts
I chose the servers to which i do my stuff online. Use Software Sources to do this.

Tried starting Updates and received this notice..........

Failed to load the package list
This is a serious problem. Try again later. If this problem appears again, please report an error to the developers.

Details:
E:Type 'wget' is not known on line 53 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list

Thought it might be a server so tried to start Software Sources.....(Nuttin)!

Question:
How can I edit (source list) of that bad line? IDK
Thanks in advance.

please post the contents of the sources.list if you wish to get from the forum

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

to edit it

sudo gksudo /etc/apt/sources.list

when you are done

sudo apt-get update

[squenson]

There is a typo in the previous post. To edit the file use:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

[idoitprone]

There is a typo in the previous post. To edit the file use:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

ooop idoit mistake

[Got2thinkin]

TY
Thought I done buggered up this OS bad.
Brb with results

Peace/Out

[Got2thinkin]

B4 edit

cat /etc/apt/sources.list:


# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 11.04 _Natty Narwhal_ - Release i386 (20110427.1)]/ natty main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannhei...utions/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannhei...utions/ubuntu/ quantal-updates main
restricted
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannhei...utions/ubuntu/ quantal universe
deb http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannhei...utions/ubuntu/ quantal-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://mirror.informatik.uni-mannhei...utions/ubuntu/ quantal multiverse
deb http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannhei...utions/ubuntu/ quantal-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://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannhei...utions/ubuntu/ quantal-security main
restricted
deb http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannhei...utions/ubuntu/ quantal-security universe
deb http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannhei...utions/ubuntu/ quantal-security
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 natty partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu natty partner
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
## developers who want to ship their latest software.
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal main
deb http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannhei...utions/ubuntu/ quantal-proposed
restricted main multiverse universe
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu quantal main

## Viewizard Games repository deb http://viewizard.com/linux debian/
wget http://www.viewizard.com/linux/viewizard-gpg.asc sudo apt-key add viewizard-gpg.asc

^^^^^ Problem line^^^^^^^

Don't recognize that command (wget).....Hmmm

Edit:
Perform non-interactive file downloads from the Web. wget works in the background and can be used to set up and run a download without the user having to remain logged on.

Hmmmm
I guess to keep the integrity of the line it must be replaced with another command.....Which......I have no clue what it should be.
Don't think a dep command would work cuz it's not retrieving a program........IDK
And if I remove the line altogether it might mess up a program installed that might be dependent on that line.

[oldos2er]

Nothing's dependent on the line "wget http://www.viewizard.com/linux/viewizard-gpg.asc sudo apt-key add viewizard-gpg.asc"
It's a command to download a gpg key, then install it on your system, so copy and paste it into a terminal, hit Enter.
Edit the line

## Viewizard Games repository deb http://viewizard.com/linux debian/

so that it looks like

## Viewizard Games repository 

deb http://viewizard.com/linux debian/

Save and exit the file, run

sudo apt-get update

Each line in sources.list must begin with either deb or deb-src, unless it's a comment (#).

[Got2thinkin]

Nothing's dependent.......

Seems to have done the trick.
Thank you and all the others that have helped with thier suggestions. Was kind of leery of takin out a line within the source list....Newbie Knucklehead .......So tried your suggestion rather than rip out that whole line ,and now i will do my homework on your code inputs to see how they worked out my problem.
Thank you again.

You Rock!

Peace/Out
G

[Got2thinkin]

And if I remove the line altogether it might mess up a program installed that might be dependent on that line.

Whoops sorry for the potty mouth Mods.
Yes I do work in the construction field....
No Excuses!


Peace

[oldos2er]

Seems to have done the trick.

Great! Would you please mark the thread as 'Solved' under Thread Tools at the top?