On Sep 9, 2004, at 1:13 AM, Derek Archer wrote:
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:
# Local modifications should either go above this line, or at the end.
#
# Default APT sources configuration for Fink, written by the fink program
# Local package trees - packages built from source locally
# NOTE: this is automatically kept in sync with the Trees: line in
# /sw/etc/fink.conf
# NOTE: run 'fink scanpackages' to update the corresponding Packages.gz files
deb file:/sw/fink local main
deb file:/sw/fink stable main crypto
deb file:/sw/fink local bootstrap bootstrap
deb file:/sw/fink main
deb file:/sw/fink unstable main crypto
# Official binary distribution: download location for packages
# from the latest release
deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download 10.3/release main crypto
deb http://fink.opendarwin.org/bbraun 10.3/unstable main crypto
deb http://fink.opendarwin.org/bbraun 10.3/stable main crypto
# Official binary distribution: download location for updated
# packages built between releases
deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download 10.3/current main crypto
# Put local modifications to this file below this line, or at the top.
Does anyone else know how to fix this problem?
Martin's analysis of the problem looks good, but I have another question: how did the two lines
deb http://fink.opendarwin.org/bbraun 10.3/unstable main crypto
deb http://fink.opendarwin.org/bbraun 10.3/stable main crypto
get into your file in that location? If you added them yourself, you should add them at the bottom of the file, after the line which says to put local modifications to the file below this line. Otherwise, when you update fink in the future, these lines will be lost.
-- Dave
