I recently performed the sudo apt-get update command to update the binary package descriptions and I got the following error message:[]
E: Malformed line 12 in source list /sw/etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
I tried this both in the terminal and using FinkCommander. I looked at my /sw/etc/apt/sources.list file and this is what it looks like:
deb file:/sw/fink local bootstrap bootstrap deb file:/sw/fink main
This is indeed "malformed". And the line before is strange, too.
Since these lines are distilled from the "Trees:" line in your /sw/etc/fink.conf file, it is there that you have to make corrections:
It looks like you have "local/bootstrap" twice on that line, and you have a solitary "main" on that line. Items on that line are of the form "tree/directory" where "tree" corresponds to a subdirectory of your /sw/fink/dists/ directory and "directory" is a subdirectory of "tree".
The translation rule from fink.conf to sources.list is that several entries on the "Trees:" line of the form "tree/dir1 tree/dir2 ... tree/dirn" give rise to one line of the form
deb file:/sw/fink tree dir1 dir2 ... dirn
You don't need to know this translation rule, fink does this automatically for you. You only need to keep the "Trees:" line in /sw/etc/fink.conf in order.
After you change your /sw/etc/fink.conf, make sure to run
sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl
-- Martin
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