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'E:Type ‘’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list'

Bug #668081 reported by harpal singh on 2010-10-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #886273: Poor handling of broken sources.list files. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu Software Center	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	software-center (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

synaptic package manager is not working
ubuntusoftware centre is not working
the massage shown is...
'E:Type ‘’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list'

j.c.sackett (jcsackett) on 2010-11-01

affects:

launchpad → software-center

Revision history for this message

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2010-11-08:

harpal singh, please attach your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

This may be related to bug 633626.

Changed in software-center:
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

Revision history for this message

Kiwinote (kiwinote) wrote on 2010-11-10:

Hi! Thanks for your bug report. The bug you describe is being tracked in an already existing bug report, so I will mark this bug as a duplicate of the other one. Please continue to report any bugs you may find in software-center. Thanks again for your help!