Type 'wget' not known
When I try to open Synaptic Package Manager I get an error message.
E: Type 'wget' is not known on line 40 in sources list /etc/apt/sources.lst E: The list of sources could not be read Go to repository dialogue to correct the problem E: _cache -> open() failed. please report. I can't access the repositories dialogue from Synaptic Package Manager due to the error message! help please, thanks |
You can edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list with any text editor. For example - you can click on the icon to get you an virtual terminal, then in the terminal:
su - (enter root password) cd /etc/apt pico sources.list (or nano, vi, emacs - whichever text editor you want to use) Then fix up the sources.list file. If you don't know what all the entries mean: man sources.list |
Thanks for that,
I had added a line to the sources.list to add the medibuntu repositories and this included "wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key" Assuming that was the problem I deleted that line. But the problem is now E: Type 'quit' is not known on line 40 in sources list /etc/apt/sources.lst E: The list of sources could not be read Go to repository dialogue to correct the problem E: _cache -> open() failed. please report. I have tried going back to 2.6.17.11-386 and 2.6.15-386 and still have the same problem. I don't know what to try to get a further clue. |
Surprise! surprise!
What ever the problem was the latest batch of updates for Ubuntu 8.04 has fixed it. Cheers |
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