Hello,
Thumbs down on Adobe Flash. There is an open-source replacement for it, so I've learned. But first I need to square this mess away:
Firefox refuses to run Adobe Flash because it's vulnerable. I go to the Adobe website, Adobe will no longer support Linux after this except to provide security fixes if I remember correctly.
Before I can download, I need to choose my option. They include YUM, Red Hat's rpm,tar.gz and and APT choice for Ubuntu 10.04+. I've downloaded the tar.gz and gotten nowhere when Firefox said it was time to check my plugins. Now Flash is not allowed to run, so I went again to update. This time I used the APT option. The rosa-partners repository is unknown.
I went in to add a new repository, and found a domain.com /rosa listed, so I made another line that duplicated what I saw in the Package Manager and called it rosa-partners. (Maybe it was rosa-partner, whichever it was said to be unknown.)
Now I have this shield with a red X in the lower right and when I hover, it said:
Quote:
Could not refresh the list of updates.
Malformed line 1 in source.list /etc/apt/source.list.d/additional-repositories.list (didn't parse)
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(Perhaps I read that wrong: dist parse?)
I opened up the additional-repositories.list file in a root session of the text editor. I don't remember the subdomain for domain.com, but to its right I saw the /rosa-psrtners entry I created and the /rosa entry that was there to begin with. I erased the rosa-partners line and saved.
Closed everything, logged out and back in.
OK, good, there's no red X down there. (I just didn't give it enough time before I drew that conclusion.) I opened the Package Manager, and this is what I had before (screenshot).
Then I have my red X back in the bottom right, only it's a little more verbose and different:
Quote:
Could not refresh the list of updates
Malformed line 1 in source.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list (dist parse)
The list of sources could not be read.
The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
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I have a couple questions here: How was I supposed to add the repository that got me in this mess to begin with, and please some help to dig myself out?
When I get this ship righted, I shall pursue the Flash alternatives.
This is my 64 bit machine.