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'E:Malformed line 38 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse), E:The list of sources could not be read.'

Bug #183861 reported by clickcyruz
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Bug Description

update manager package crashes and wont let me in and ask to report this message against update manager 'E:Malformed line 38 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse), E:The list of sources could not be read.'

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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote :

Hello,

Thanks for reporting this.

Could you please attach the file

/etc/apt/sources.list

To this bug report?

This give us enough information to continue.

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clickcyruz (clickcyruz) wrote :

I figured it out, i had tried to add a repository and had done it wrongly, this was the course. I went into the files system and looked for th etc folder and opened the apt folder and opened the source list folder, from there i was able to fix the problem. thank u

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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote :

Thanks for your report.

I'm closing it now as invalid, please don't hesitate to report anything you think is a bug in future.

Thanks again!

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