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steam messed up my sources.list file

Asked by Jeremy Dean Crow

When I try to open the synaptic package manager I get this error message:

E: Malformed line 51 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.

On line 51:
deb-src http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/precise steam

How do I repair this?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

I guess the line has to be

deb-src http://repo.steampowered.com/steam precise steam
(same would apply to a line like deb http://repo.steampowered.com/steam precise steam)

(a space character instead of a slash between steam and precise)

Yuu can edit your sources list by opening a terminals and issuing the command
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

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