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Asked by Patrick O'Dea

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'ain' is not known on line 3 in source list/etc/apt/sources.list.d tiheum-equinox-maverick list

i was trying to help but the procedure was too complcated, setting up account, altF2 etc for my simple brain. so here's the message anyway. was prefixed by 'E:Type ....

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

It's because you have a file with bad syntax in it. Logging a bug is as simple as running:

ubuntu-bug packagename

Which isn't hard at all.

Can you give the output of:
gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d tiheum-equinox-maverick list

Thanks

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#2

This is not a bug, it is a configuration error -- the program is meant to do this.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Can you give the content of the file and we can clean this up and the app will run as expected.

Thanks

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Patrick O'Dea (paddyo2) said : 		#4

yes. i tried that but was having connection hassle because of configuration
error. have received answers from a couple of other ubuntu users and have
fixed the problem. thanks for your help.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:00 PM, actionparsnip <
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> Your question #151631 on apt in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+question/151631
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
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> actionparsnip requested for more information:
> It's because you have a file with bad syntax in it. Logging a bug is as
> simple as running:
>
> ubuntu-bug packagename
>
> Which isn't hard at all.
>
> Can you give the output of:
> gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d tiheum-equinox-maverick list
>
> Thanks
>
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Patrick O'Dea (paddyo2) said : 		#5

thank you. was a bit ah stressed when i did this biz. fixed now. many
thanks.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:02 AM, mycae <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> Your question #151631 on apt in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+question/151631
>
> mycae posted a new comment:
> This is not a bug, it is a configuration error -- the program is meant
> to do this.
>
> You received this question notification because you are a direct
> subscriber of the question.
>

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

What was the fix. Was it your sources which were at fault?

Glad you got the gold

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