Hello I am trying to upgrade my Linux and I cannot I get this saying
E:Malformed line 1 in source list etc//apt/sources.list (type)
E: The list of sources could not be read.sudo

I do not know what to do I tried everything I am ready to throw this stupid chromebook to the garbage i do not like this at all please someone help.

I have the Acer Chromebook spin 11 and I hate this thing.

The error is telling you the problem - your sources.list has an incorrect line 1.

(Note, the path is "/etc/apt/sources.list" not "etc//apt/sources.list" - please take extra care when copying error messages.)

Open the file "/etc/apt/sources.list" in a text editor - if the issue is not obvious, copy-paste the contents into a post inside "[code]..[/code]" tags.

You can see an example Debian sources.list here: https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Example_sources.list

Other distros will have different values but the same structure to the lines.

It's always a good idea to create a backup before modifying such files.

Hmmmm, You say you have Acer Chromebook Flip 11.

Has It been hacked so as to run something Debian based instead of ChromeOS.

Because ChromeOS has reached end of life for updates in ChromeOS for that model acer.


Citation: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3933...es-matter.html

Yours expired in June 2024. I am only answering because I am on my HP Chromebook X360 which I just updated.
ChromeOS handles this of course kinda like Windows. Keeps you out of the loop.

If by chance someone shoe horned a Debian distro on your chromebook.
Try this command in terminal so we get some info on your installation.

I have installed inxi in Termux in my chromebook. So here is my example.
https://i.ibb.co/y4dqfv9/Screenshot-...4-42-09-PM.png

Termux does not use copy and paste. Sorry the screenshot is a bit small. Use the CTRL + keys to blow up the picture.
That will blur it a little though.

No, they said they have an "Acer Chromebook spin 11"

Huh? Has one of us fallen through a time portal from two-plus years into the future...?

Inxi doesn't give any information about if/why sources.list is corrupted. (It seems to simply ignore invalid entries.)

So can you post this file?

My bad. Sorry.

I guess I'll be no help in this thread. At least I tried. @ the OP. Don't listen to me.

Edit: https://www.techrepublic.com/videos/...ns-linux-apps/

Current version is Debian GNU/Linux 10 and I cannot even upgrade it because of Linux..

I'm afraid I don't understand this sentence. From the other hand without additional info we can't help you.
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-ques...html#beprecise

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No, you didn't because if you had followed the suggestion in post 2 you would have resolved the problem. You need to open that file in a text editor with root (sudo) privileges and either comment out the first line by placing a # at the beginning of the line or deleting it.

You don't seem to understand that Debian is one version (distribution) of Linux of which there are hundreds.

You have to correct this - you will need to use sudo (or be the root operator).

It is the file /etc/apt/sources.list, which is needed to be able to update/upgrade your system.

Lisa Marie, please don't panic. Linux is not harder to use than Windows, it's just different. One of those differences is that all the configuration is in text files (mostly in the /etc folder), not in an inaccessible binary registry. And if any of them goes wrong, it can be edited and corrected just like any other bit of text. Another difference is that most Linux utilities give very informative error messages when they go wrong. The message you saw is a case in point. It tells you precisely which file has got corrupted. /etc/apt/sources.list is the file where the addresses (URLs) of the Debian software repositories are stored. If one of these isn't a valid URL, apt can't download anything from that site.

Obviously you cannot be expected to edit this file unless you know what it is supposed to look like. That's why several people here have told you to post the file itself so that we can all have a look at it and see what's wrong with it.

If it's any comfort to you, I had an almost identical problem after a new install of another member of the Debian family. I didn't know what was wrong with the addresses in the file, so I posted the whole file here. And the friendly people here told me what those addresses were supposed to look like. I edited them all and apt worked again.

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LisaMarie78,

The solution to your problem is outlined in post #2.

You need to open the file, /etc/apt/sources.list in Terminal with the command:

Debian’s default text editor is nano.

If you are not familiar with nano, here are two links which may be helpful:

https://www.hostinger.co.uk/tutorial...no-text-editor

https://www.tecmint.com/learn-nano-t...itor-in-linux/

Personally I would install gedit, since it is much simpler to use:

Of course this probably will not work because of the problem with your sources list and therefore you will be obliged to use nano in the first instance.

Once you have opened the sources list using:

take a screenshot (Print Scrn key) and then close the file using the combination of Ctrl + X.

Then post the screenshot on here using Additional items > Attach files (below the main text box).

this is what I I get I attached a screen shot of what it says when I type something in sorry that I cannot figure it out even though you guys told me how to do it sorry that I can not figure this out this Chromebook is new thing for me and I do not like it at all.

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it will not let me

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you need to run: cat /etc/apt/sources.list (and post the output)