Re: Ubuntu Update Manager crippled...Help !

Look carefully at the command you typed, and the file name that has the
problem: you need to delete /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list
  but you tried to delete /etc/apt/source.list.d/abiword-stable.list

Copy and paste this command:
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list

then use the easy install on the wiki.

Ryan

mehermuchacho wrote:
> Dear Ryan -
>
> Thanks for your reply - I've copied below my latest replies to the Ubuntu Launchpad - they HAVE gotten back to me in the end, but to no avail as yet-
>
> If you read below, you'll see I can't remove the 'list' because this computer doesn't recognise that there is anything *there*!
>
> And if I try to re-download the Abiword stable list via the command line, I receive the same message as I originally got - as you'll observe below -
>
> (You're probably right about the timer/synchroniser glitch being unrelated - this is probably a BIOS problem and I'll need to go into the BIOS the next time I boot up - there *is* an error message during boot-up about the timer not being connected to the IO-APIC (i think)...)
>
> HOWEVER, I think there must be *SOME* glitch with the latest Abiword repository list at Ubuntu, even though it worked for you...The Abiword that I originally downloaded was 2.6.6 and I read in the Abisource responses that there is a slightly newer one, and this is what started off this whole business....
>
> Thanks for your help - any other suggestions...?
>
> Yours with best wishes,
>
> - mehermuchacho
>
>
> " Thank you for the sugguestions/commands -
>
> However, I am actually on an Ubuntu Merry-Go-Round - To wit:
>
> When I typed the "Remove" command, to get rid of the empty list, I got the following response from the terminal:
>
> ' rm: cannot remove `/etc/apt/source.list.d/abiword-stable.list': No such file or directory '
>
> SO I then tried your next commands and got as far as the 2nd one, when I received *this* response - which is disturbingly familiar, and is the source of the original problem...(I think...):
>
> ' sudo apt-get -f install
> E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list (dist parse)
> E: The list of sources could not be read. '
>
> I certainly don't know what to do about this - is there a way to repair the Update Manager and Synchroniser by themselves and just work around the Abiword issue?
>
> I only wanted to update Abiword because the version of Abiword on this new-ish Ubuntu (LINUX FORMAT magazine) release is 2.6.6 (i think) and there is a slightly more up-to-date that Abiword was recommending...
>
> Ho hum...(I was so sure *this* Linux would (finally) *work*!)
>
> I am very grateful for your help, one and all - any other suggestions spring to mind?
>
> Yours with thanks,
>
> - mehermuchacho
>
>
> --- On Sat, 10/17/09, marcobra (Marco Braida) <question86062@answers.launchpad.net> wrote:
>
>> From: marcobra (Marco Braida) <question86062@answers.launchpad.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Question #86062]: Error in Update Manager
>> To: mehermuchacho@yahoo.com
>> Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 6:34 PM
>> Your question #86062 on
>> update-manager in ubuntu changed:
>> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/86062
>>
>> Status: Open => Answered
>>
>> marcobra (Marco Braida) proposed the following answer:
>> Open a terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories
>> → Terminal
>>
>> Tip: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption
>> and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will
>> force the terminal window to stay on top of the other
>> windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from
>> this web page into the terminal...
>> Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal
>>
>> and type:
>>
>> sudo rm /etc/apt/source.list.d/abiword-stable.list
>>
>> give your user password when requested, you don't see
>> nothing when you
>> type it, then press enter.
>>
>> Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press
>> enter:
>> (Tip: select the single row to copy then right click into
>> the terminal and to quick paste click with middle button of
>> mouse )
>>
>> sudo dpkg --configure -a
>> sudo apt-get -f install
>> sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
>> sudo apt-get clean
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>> sudo apt-get clean
>> sudo apt-get autoremove
>>
>> give your user password when requested, you don't see
>> nothing when you
>> type it, then press enter.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> --
>> If this answers your question, please go to the following
>> page to let us
>> know that it is solved:
>> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/86062/+confirm?answer_id=6
>>
>> If you still need help, you can reply to this email or go
>> to the
>> following page to enter your feedback:
>> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/86062 "
>
> --- On Sun, 10/18/09, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net>
>> Subject: Re: Ubuntu Update Manager crippled...Help !
>> To: "mehermuchacho" <mehermuchacho@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
>> Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 12:17 PM
>>
>> mehermuchacho wrote:
>>> Dear Abi Word Folk,
>>> I used the command lines suggested on the linked
>> Ubuntu Abiword page in order to make absolutely sure my
>> Abiword is up to date, but this has resulted in the
>> following error message, and it has also crashed my Ubuntu
>> Update Manager, and the synchronisation for date & time
>> -
>>> I *HAVE* filed a bug report at Launchpad five or six
>> days ago but have heard NOTHING.....
>>> Here is the error message that came up at the last
>> stage of the 4-step Wiki-suggested command line prompts -
>> (It seems to me from reading this that the Ubuntu list may
>> not be properly formatted and this may have caused the
>> glitch - I am using the latest stable release of Ubuntu as
>> given away in last month's (or August's) edition of Linux
>> Format magazine in the (not-so) U.K.):
>>> ' Error: Opening the cache(E:Malformed line 1 in
>> source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list
>> (dist parse), E:The list of sources could not be read.) '
>>> Any help would be appreciated - because, as I say, my
>> update manager is now not working, nor the synchronisation
>> of date/time...
>>> Thank you in advance,
>>> - mehermuchacho
>> I'm not sure what might be happening with your date/time
>> sync - that seems unrelated. The reason that the PPA
>> exists is because Ubuntu does not keep up with our releases
>> in a timely fashion, and bug reports filed at Launchpad go
>> to them, not to me - the person who actually makes the
>> packages on the PPA.
>>
>> Sorry for the difficulties - I re-tested the steps and they
>> appeart to work here, but I've added a note to the wiki with
>> these following instructions. You can fix your problem
>> by just deleting the file
>> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list by running
>>
>> sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list
>>
>> and that should solve the problem. I'm not sure why
>> that went wrong - if you don't mind file a bug at
>> bugzilla.abisource.com and attach a copy of that file before
>> you delete it - I'd like to see what happened.
>>
>> I've updated the instructions with "easy install" links
>> that should be pretty fail-safe because they make the setup
>> basically 1-step: download and run the package linked from
>> the page, and you'll get the updates in your update
>> manager.
>>
>> Let me know if this helps.
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>>
>> -- Ryan Pavlik
>> www.cleardefinition.com
>>
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