Hi,
Thanks for the report. A reinstall should not be necessary.
Can you tell me how you started synaptic? Was it from the
menu?
Could you also attach a copy of your /etc/apt/sources.list file
to this bug report so that we can see what is on the line
that it is complaining about?
Thanks,
James
Thanks for your bugreport. The error is telling you that there's an
error in your /etc/apt/sources.list. You could look in that file using
'sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list' and see if 'sudo' is on line 84. If
so remove it. Or you could go to the repository dialogue to correct the
problem. using:
Thank you so much for your rapid and kind response.
Yes i opened it from all of: the update manager applet; synaptic from the menu;
and add/remove which all gave pretty much the same response.
Here is all of my source list, it intrigues me but i hope you understand
it better than i do :-) i
It seems like you some how encountered a problem while trying to add a
third party repo.
These lines should not be there, they should be deleted:
sudo apt-key add
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update
** Changed in:
oh, that's emm, slightly embarassing, thats sorted it.
umm i have no idea how i got them lines there i shall be more careful when
installing in future.
Thank you all very much for your help anyhow, its fanastic to know that there
is such a great community here, im sure this shall not be mylast
