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Major Failure, Software Management System!

Asked by Griffkyn on 2008-06-12

Hello i have installed some software from the Synaptic Package Manager it says it installed it properly but i can't find it anywhere

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Bhavani Shankar
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2008-06-12
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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : #1

Got to Applications menu, accessories, Terminal and type

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -f

That should sort it out.

Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : #2

Hello

Navigate to a terminal (applications -> accessories -> terminal) and give the below commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -f upgrade

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

Griffkyn (griffkyn) said : #3

griffyn@griffyn-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
E: Type '“deb' is not known on line 64 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
griffyn@griffyn-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install-f
E: Invalid operation install-f

Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : #4

For efficiency it's also worth going to System menu, Administration, Software Sources
This sets where you will download software from.

Choose the Download Server and select "Other" then choose "Select Best Server".

This will then choose your closest Repository and refresh your repositories.

The best thing after this is to run a terminal window and then try

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Griffkyn (griffkyn) said : #5

ive been trying all of this but it continuously says

griffyn@griffyn-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
E: Type '“deb' is not known on line 64 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
griffyn@griffyn-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install-f
E: Invalid operation install-f
griffyn@griffyn-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
E: Type '“deb' is not known on line 64 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.

Griffkyn (griffkyn) said : #6

where can i find /etc/apt/sources.list (if i can change line 64) i think it might work?

Best Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : #7

Hello

You have added some incorrect lines to your file /etc/apt/sources.list, which probably should have been executed in a terminal instead.
To resolve this you need to edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list and remove the referred line(s) that should not be there.
As a guide, sources.list should only contain lines that start "deb", "deb-src", "cdrom" or a "#" symbol, anything else is wrong and should not be there. Please refer to the error message, which should contain a line number.
To edit the sources.list file, press ALT+F2 at the Ubuntu desktop and then type the following command in the box, depending on your Ubuntu flavour:
For Ubuntu:
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
For Kubuntu:
kdesudo kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list
Exactly as you see it there, then press enter/return. Enter your password when prompted and edit the file in the editor as advised above. You should then save and quit the editor.
The program which reads /etc/apt/sources.list should work again.

For ubuntu 8.04 please paste the below:

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Alpha i386 (20080222)]/ hardy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted #Added by software-properties
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse universe #Added by software-properties

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates restricted main multiverse universe #Added by software-properties

## 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
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-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://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-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/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe 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 hardy partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security restricted main multiverse universe #Added by software-properties
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security multiverse

Save the source list

Run the update manager

gksu "update-manager -c"

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : #8

If the Software Sources option above did not work for you try in a terminal window

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

and paste the result into this window for us to read.

Griffkyn (griffkyn) said : #9

Thx a million bucks man, one of the lines in the middle started with a " and was causing it to crash!!!!

all working now TOP HELP!

Griffkyn (griffkyn) said : #10

Thanks Bhavani Shankar, that solved my question.

Vaneet Dadra (vaneet-dadra) said : #11

I am facing same problem but I have gutsy instead of hardy should I copy and paste the same thing?

Dunnonothingsortof (tulip79) said : #12

I had the same problems. Tried to follow your instructions but didnt work. Run sudo apt-get -f upgrade, returns this

kim@TULIP:~$ sudo apt-get -f upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  kio-umountwrapper
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 115kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 122541 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing kio-umountwrapper ...
No diversion `diversion of /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/media_safelyremove.desktop by kio-umountwrapper', none removed
No diversion `diversion of /usr/share/apps/dolphin/servicemenus/media_safelyremove.desktop by kio-umountwrapper', none removed
Removing `diversion of /usr/share/apps/d3lphin/servicemenus/media_safelyremove.desktop to /usr/share/apps/d3lphin/servicemenus/media_safelyremove.desktop.distrib by kio-umountwrapper'
dpkg-divert: error checking `/usr/share/apps/d3lphin/servicemenus/media_safelyremove.desktop': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing kio-umountwrapper (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 kio-umountwrapper
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any one help an idea how to fix that?

Thanks so much.

pdonovan (pdonovan821) said : #13

I'm having the same problem. I tried installing playonlinux (trying to get wow installer to work...and it's not at all. the accept button the eula stays gray (im running it wine)) and after doing such, im getting the same problem with the major system failure.

this is what pops up for me as well:

"This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software information with: 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'.

so i run terminal and put in the sudo apt-get update and get this:
E: Type '--2009-02-14' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list

so i try to open my list files, and either that line itself isnt shown. I checked the net for an original source file and tried to copy and paste that in over the old one...and that did nothing to help either.

So i dunno, any suggestions?
oh and if someone can help me with the WoW thing, that'd be peachy too =)

Jerald at Beach (jcole4) said : #14

When I run add/remove I get the following error
E: Type '<HTML>' 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.

There does not appear to be a problem with sources.list