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apt-get problems

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Whenever i try to use apt-get to do anything (install, remove, update, source, etc.) there is an error.
E: Type 'n' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sun-java-community-team-sun-java6-lucid.list
I know it's a problem with java, and i'm assuming this problem was caused by the installation of the wrong package for my system.

Ubuntu 10.04

I don't however, know how to fix this problem. Please help

As well on the top Panel, on the right, there is a red circle with a white line in it. when i roll over it with my cursor it says this:

An error occurred, please run Package Manager form the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong. The error message was: 'Error: Opening the cache (E:Type 'n' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sun-java-community-team-sun-java6-lucid.list, E:The list of sources could not be read.)'This usually means that yor installed packages have unmet dependencies
What does this mean exactly?

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#1

Open the file with the command:
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sun-java-community-team-sun-java6-lucid.list

What does it say on line 1? If necessary copy and paste the whole thing here so we can have a look at it.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#2

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Bystander (rbo10661) said : 		#3

All that it says in the file is 'n'
what should i do?
P.S. i apologize for taking so long to reply

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

It seems there is nothing reasonable contained in that file, so you best just delete it.

open a terminal and execute

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sun-java-community-team-sun-java6-lucid.list

If you really need that PPA you could re-enable it with the instructions as shown in https://launchpad.net/~sun-java-community-team/+archive/sun-java6

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Bystander (rbo10661) said : 		#5

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.