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sudo is not working,unable to install software or install updates

Asked by punyabrat kumar

dear developer please help me to overcome this software problem,Iam unable to install software or get updates..
Iam running on ubuntu 18.04 LTS version,I do not know what is the problem it is..

Whenever I Open any package manager it shows as following-

An error occurred

The following details are provided

E: Type 'Sudo' is not known on line 3 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whatsie.list

E:The list of sources could not be read

E:_cache->open()failed,please report

Actually I was trying to install whatsapp web desktop client By following commands-

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv 6DDA23616E3FE905FFDA152AE61DA9241537994D

echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/aluxian/deb stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whatsie.list

Then the software problem get starts

It also shows as that-

This a serious problem, If this problem appears again please report to developers to fix the problem

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

It seems that you made an error in your attempt toad the extra source for whatsapp.

What is the output of the command

cat -n /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whatsie.list

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

(oops, typo error ... to add ... )

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punyabrat kumar (punyabrat) said : 		#3

 The output of the command cat -n /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whatsie.list is as following

Package: whatsie
Version: 2.0.15-442
License: MIT
Vendor: Alexandru Rosianu
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Alexandru Rosianu <email address hidden>
Installed-Size: 140273
Depends: libappindicator1 | libappindicator | libappindicator-gtk3, gconf2, gconf-service, libgtk2.0-0, libudev0 | libudev1, libgcrypt11 | libgcrypt20, libnotify4, libxtst6, libnss3, python, gvfs-bin, xdg-utils, libcap2
Recommends: lsb-release, libcanberra-gtk3-module, hunspell, git
Suggests: libgnome-keyring0, gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0
Section: web
Priority: extra
Homepage: https://whatsie.chat/
Description: A simple & beautiful desktop client for WhatsApp Web.
Filename: pool/main/w/whatsie/whatsie-2.0.15-linux-amd64.deb
SHA1: 5fe44cba92a43bfee214aa27c2dec677dff29c3c
SHA256: 900c6b537089be34fd168b65b0646832b948ccfce1b58f9913ea737e3172df8c
Size: 47566122

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

This shows that there are completely wrong contents of that file.

The configuration file /etc/apt/source.list and the files in the directory /etc/apt/source.list.d/ have to contain links to the repositories where the package management can download packages.

Your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whatsie.list file does not contain a link to the repository but a complete description of the package. This is nonsense.

Try the following:

Open a terminal window and execute the following commands:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whatsie.list

echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/aluxian/deb stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whatsie.list

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/whatsie.list

sudo apt-get update

and finally copy paste all output from this terminal window back into this question document that we can check the results.

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punyabrat kumar (punyabrat) said : 		#5

my problem is solved...thanks a lot Mr Manfred Hampl...have a good time

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punyabrat kumar (punyabrat) said : 		#6

my problem is solved...thanks a lot Mr Manfred Hampl...have a good time

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punyabrat kumar (punyabrat) said : 		#7

when I type the following command ,it shows following information and it is solved...

sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for welcome:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
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  libboost-filesystem1.65.1:i386 libboost-iostreams1.65.1:i386 libboost-system1.65.1:i386
  libcwidget3v5:i386 libsigc++-2.0-0v5:i386 libxapian30:i386 libzstd1:i386
Suggested packages:
  apt-doc aptitude-doc-en:i386 | aptitude-doc:i386 apt-xapian-index:i386 debtags:i386
  tasksel:i386 libcwidget-dev:i386 xapian-tools:i386
Recommended packages:
  libparse-debianchangelog-perl:i386 apt:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  aptitude-common libapt-pkg5.0:i386 libboost-filesystem1.65.1:i386
  libboost-iostreams1.65.1:i386 libboost-system1.65.1:i386 libcwidget3v5:i386
  libsigc++-2.0-0v5:i386 libxapian30:i386 libzstd1:i386
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apt apt-utils aptitude:i386 libapt-pkg5.0
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