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Problem with Software Center using Ubuntu 12.10

Asked by Douglas Facey

I am having problem with Service center and I am at a lost on what to do. I have installed service center because it kept crashing because of an error say:

E: Malformed line 4 in source list /etc/apt/source.list (dist parse)
E: the list of source could not be read

In the terminal, I ran gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list and got the following results:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ partner
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ quantal partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ quantal partner

I am not sure what is line 4 is wrong, can someone please help me. I am new to Linux and have been trying to learn it for few days.

Thanks,

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Subin Hutton (djlynux) said : 		#1

Please attach your source.list.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Run:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

delete these 2 lines:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ partner

Not only do you not have the word 'quantal' on the line, you also ALREADY have 2 lines defining the partner repo correctly, so they are not needed.

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Douglas Facey (dfacey7) said : 		#3

The problem was solved by typing the word pricise in front of the word partner:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ percise partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ percise partner

Thanks for you all help. This is a great spot to find answers!! I will be here looking for help and adding what I ahve leraned.