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A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Asked by Jim Bates

A 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 '--19:19:23--' 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 was intending to pull down the DVD libs from Medibuntu, but must have misspelled the command string or whatever. In any case, I want to clear the command and be able to go back and try from the beginning. I reviewed the error list suggested by launchpad but just cannot decipher how to clear the error message and dump the command into never-never land.

Any guidance will be appreciated.

 Also, please note I am a absolutely new Linux user so I may well be missing something obvious or not hitting the right actions at the beginning.

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debianmigrant (debianmigrant) said : 		#1

Is it a similar issue to this one?

Could you post the content of your sources.list please

Thanks

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debianmigrant (debianmigrant) said : 		#2

Sorry - this one

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+question/5406

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Best Jim Bates (jbates2) said : 		#3

I do not know how to get the system to open the sources.list file so I can capture and post to you.b There is simply too many thinh=gs I need to learn before I tackle the Linux releases. I think I will simply blow away the Linux distro and redo every thing from scratch. I will research how to read the sources.list file and try from the top. Please fell free to close this request for assistance.

Thank you for your effort.

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debianmigrant (debianmigrant) said : 		#4

The sources.list is in the /etc/apt/ folder , you can navigate there through the file manager (read-only though), or by typing the following command:

$sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list