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You need to dress the line n. 47 of etc/apt/sources.list so to get better help please give us the file content:

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:

gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Copy and paste the file content here...

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New to Ubuntu: read the Ubuntu Manual, it's very informative: http://ubuntu-manual.org/
Click on the "download Button" to download the latest PDF version.
The online help https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/index.html

Relax and fun:
http://planet.ubuntu.com/ and Full Circle Magazine http://fullcirclemagazine.org/

You can make it easier with:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list | head -n 47 | tail -n 1

Will give only the offending line :)

thank you, I did that and got the answer in terminal that my
source was canonical... and then ? My package manager says :

E: Malformed line 40 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist
parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

so ?

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You can make it easier with:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list | head -n 47 | tail -n 1

Will give only the offending line :)

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list | head -n 40 | tail -n 1

Then

What is output?

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid
is the answer
also, I can't get to any of the software sources either

amazing, it works, so thank you,
I did exactly that, screen rolled, I restarted computer and traffic sign is not coming up again, wow, I'm getting geeky, first day I wrote IN the program !

No worries, glad you got the gold :)