Steven,

On Monday 13 February 2012 19:38:52 Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> My platform is 64bit, and is up to date as of 7am today.
> 
> Following along with the directions here:
> <https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads>
> 
> I add the repository line:
> deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib
> 
> In a terminal I download the Oracle public key and register it with:
> wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc
> -O- | sudo apt-key add -
> 
> I then do the install:
> sudo apt-get update
> 
> I don't get as far as the install (sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.1)
> because I get this message:
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/oneiric/Release
> Unable to find expected entry 'contrib/source/Sources' in Release file
> (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
> ones used instead.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug at the Oracle end?

to me it seems that you also added a deb-src repository line. We don't
provide source packages for the distributions (too much effort for to
few benefit), only binary packages.

Kind regards,

Frank
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