Re: Ubuntu Update Manager crippled...Help !

mehermuchacho wrote:
> Dear Abi Word Folk,
>
> I used the command lines suggested on the linked Ubuntu Abiword page in order to make absolutely sure my Abiword is up to date, but this has resulted in the following error message, and it has also crashed my Ubuntu Update Manager, and the synchronisation for date & time -
>
> I *HAVE* filed a bug report at Launchpad five or six days ago but have heard NOTHING.....
>
> Here is the error message that came up at the last stage of the 4-step Wiki-suggested command line prompts - (It seems to me from reading this that the Ubuntu list may not be properly formatted and this may have caused the glitch - I am using the latest stable release of Ubuntu as given away in last month's (or August's) edition of Linux Format magazine in the (not-so) U.K.):
>
> ' Error: Opening the cache(E:Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list (dist parse), E:The list of sources could not be read.) '
>
> Any help would be appreciated - because, as I say, my update manager is now not working, nor the synchronisation of date/time...
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> - mehermuchacho

I'm not sure what might be happening with your date/time sync - that
seems unrelated. The reason that the PPA exists is because Ubuntu does
not keep up with our releases in a timely fashion, and bug reports filed
at Launchpad go to them, not to me - the person who actually makes the
packages on the PPA.

Sorry for the difficulties - I re-tested the steps and they appeart to
work here, but I've added a note to the wiki with these following
instructions. You can fix your problem by just deleting the file
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list by running

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abiword-stable.list

and that should solve the problem. I'm not sure why that went wrong -
if you don't mind file a bug at bugzilla.abisource.com and attach a copy
of that file before you delete it - I'd like to see what happened.

I've updated the instructions with "easy install" links that should be
pretty fail-safe because they make the setup basically 1-step: download
and run the package linked from the page, and you'll get the updates in
your update manager.

Let me know if this helps.

Ryan

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