Update on my post earlier today:

On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 at 00:23:36 +0700, I wrote:

On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:43:16 +0100, Stéphane Grégoire wrote:

John E a tapoté, le 05/01/2014 05:49:
Hi, I'm trying to do a clean install of SM 2.23 on a new laptop using
Ubuntu 12.04.3, but I'm getting (seamonkey:5378 and 2917) errors.


On Ubuntu, you can use :
<http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/index.php?title=Main_Page>


Thanks for that.

Under the Installation section there, I got as far as

Update your package database:

But then...

:~$ sudo apt-get update
E: Malformed line 59 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.


My line 59 reads:
deb https://launchpad.net/~exalm/+archive/seamonkey 2.23

Can't see what's wrong with that line. Can anyone else here?

Whilst I'm admittedly an old codger sometimes prone to forgetting and misinterpreting things, I'd nevertheless like to feedback the fact that...

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/index.php?title=Main_Page

...ran me into deeper trouble today. For whatever reason, when I followed the procedure listed there I incurred a system error which disabled my access to Software Center. Until that reason is analysed and understood, I don't think that sourceforge.net URL should be recommended to anyone like myself who is in difficulty installing software.

I've explained the trouble in more detail in a post today on the Ubuntuzilla forum in Ubuntu Forums at

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2199120 (system error caused by sources.list)

and I'm hoping I'll get a resolution as to the cause from that community in due course..

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