repository error after trying to install Skype

Asked by dacman

I attempted to install skype for linux by using the following as per instructions at http://technical-itch.co.uk/2007/09/18/how-to-install-skype-on-ubuntu/

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/feisty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

sudo aptitude install skype

none of it worked, it said something along the lines of cannot find such file.

Now I cannot open synaptic package manager, the error message says

E: Type '--2010-03-23' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

and update manager says

Could not initialize the package information

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:Type '--2010-03-23' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list, E:The list of sources could not be read.'

I dont know what to do.

Dave

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yzfvie (yzfvie) said :
#1

I have the same problem, i think.

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dacman (paramedical) said :
#2

Judging by the complete lack of replies....we might be on our own with this one!

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dacman (paramedical) said :
#3

I have searched the internet on how to remove the package, but without being able to open synaptic package manager you dont seem to be able to do it......catch 22....

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ishu (ishan21) said :
#4

I have the same problem.. somwonw help me out please..

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ishu (ishan21) said :
#5

i have the same problem.. can any1 help me out...

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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) said :
#6

You can remove the broken file:
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

And then you can rerun the command above again. Be sure to use the exact one given on the wiki page, especiallt for the wget options: -O (capital letter) has a completely different meaning of -o (lowercase letter).

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dacman (paramedical) said :
#7

Thanks
It worked perfectly. And how simple.........I need to get myself a linux for dummies book.

Cheers

Dacman