Hi Al The problem is fixed and I now have Skype up and running. Ubuntu was right and I was wrong. I had mistyped http//:instead of http:// and after correcting this there was another typo! When at last these blunders were corrected all went smoothly.
Remind me not to seek employment as a typist! Best Benjy On 3 May 2010 12:49, Alan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 May 2010 12:43, Anthony Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > > On running sudo apt-get I still got malformed line 55 in sources list > > > > It's quite self-explanatory really. Line 55 of the file > /etc/apt/sources.list makes no sense to apt-get. > > You probably pasted a line in and it was either truncated, split over > multiple lines or in some other way broken. > > Simply do the following:- > > ALT+F2 > gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list > > In the text editor scroll down to line 55. The line should either > start with a hash symbol indicating a comment, or the word "deb" or > "deb-src". It may be that its a continuation of the line above. > > To fix it you need to know what the line should be. > Let us know what you have. You could also copy and paste the entire > file from the editor into http://paste.ubuntu.com/ and let us have the > link so we can look at it. > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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