Thank you both for your reply.  As a suggestion, I first went ahead
and tried removing the source for the deb http://software.thinkgos.com/
gadgets main, then re-entering the source info.  Amazingly this fixed
the issue!  I will move on to my next issues, which must be driver
related, because my sound and wifi are not functioning right.  I'll
post that in a different thread however.  Thanks for your tips:  I am
saving them for future use in case I run into similar issues.

On Dec 29, 6:34 pm, zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
> i think you should find a right "apt source" in your country first.
> and then backup your /etc/apt/sources.list to /etc/apt/sources.list_bak,
> touch a new file /etc/apt/sources.list copy apt source list into the new
> /etc/apt/sources.list.
> reboot
> sudo apt-get update
> sodu apt-get upgrade
> good luck.
>
> Zhang
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:34 AM, JasonB <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I am new, but I think I have done this all correctly.  This is a
> > partition install on a Win Vista system, HP laptop.  Everything boots
> > fine, but I get the following error when trying to access any package
> > manager menu:
>
> > Could not initialize the package information
> > A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package
> > information.
> > Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and
> > include the following error message:
> > 'E:Malformed line 56 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist
> > parse), E:The list of sources could not be read.'
>
> > Then, if I try to access it by right clicking the upper right icon, I
> > get the following:
>
> > E: Malformed line 56 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.
>
> > Can someone help me past this step so I can get to the updates, and
> > figure out my next step in getting wifi to work.
>
> > Thanks a TON!
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