Could not initialize the package information

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the ‘update-manager’ package and include the following error message:

‘E:Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 54 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list, E:The list of sources could not be read.’

Everyday thousands of people are signing up to rent DVD movies online. You can find numbers of site today delivers DVD Rentals to you. You can rent as many DVDs as you want from the comfort of your home and have them delivered to your door in about bus…

sudo apt-get -f install

I tried fixing broken packages with synaptic, but that didn’t work. Oh please help !

miguel@quantum2:~$ gpg --import automatix2.key
gpg: key E23C5FC3: “Arnav Ghosh (Automatix Team Lead) ” not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1
miguel@quantum2:~$
miguel@quantum2:~$ gpg --export --armor E23C5FC3 | sudo apt-key add -
OK
miguel@quantum2:~$ sudo apt-get update
E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 46 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
miguel@quantum2:~$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
miguel@quantum2:~$
miguel@quantum2:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Translation-en_US

bla.. bla.. bla..

Fetched 3B in 1s (2B/s)
Reading package lists… Done
miguel@quantum2:~$ sudo apt-get install automatix2
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package automatix2

You should look into /etc/apt/sources.list and replace every occurence of “hhtp” with “http”.
Explaination: Apt is searching for a protocol handler for “hhtp”, but this handler does not exist.

Hope that helps,
Michael

100%[====================================>] 1,706 --.--K/s

08:32:04 (404.17 KB/s) - `automatix2.key’ saved [1706/1706]

murdo@murdo-laptop:~$ gpg --import automatix2.key
gpg: key E23C5FC3: public key “Arnav Ghosh (Automatix Team Lead) ” imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
murdo@murdo-laptop:~$ gpg --export --armor E23C5FC3 | sudo apt-key add -
OK
murdo@murdo-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/hhtp could not be found.
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/hhtp could not be found.
murdo@murdo-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install automatix2
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package automatix2
murdo@murdo-laptop:~$

Please Help me this is a real pain

puts the ” in the file

Grtz

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the ‘universe’
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the ‘backports’
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security universe Automatix repo
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt edgy main Automatix repo

#AUTOMATIX REPOS START

deb http://wine.lowvoice.nl/apt feisty main

deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty universe multiverse
#AUTOMATIX REPOS END# Repository for wine
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main
deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main# Repository for wine
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main
deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main
echo “deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt Feisty main

sudo apt-get update
E: Type ‘echo’ is not known on line 60 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list

Try the following line in a terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

On the last line, you will see “deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main”

Remove the quotes, and save the file.

Now try:

sudo apt-get update

Continue with the rest of the tutorial.

I figure that the missing “deb” command must be part of a “debian” related installer, but I don’t know how to restore it.

Pretty irresponsible for someone to dump this bad info on the forum and then disappear.

If I don’t get it fixed in a day or so I’ll just re-install ubuntu.

sudo apt-get update

I got:

E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 37 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list

I stopped there, not having any good idea what to do next, and later tried to run Synaptics and got a message box with this text:

E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 37 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

I don’t know what to do now.

I stopped there. But now my Synaptics is screwed up, and I still don’t have the codecs I needed. So I’ve fallen backward from attempting the ‘automatix’ thing. Pretty bad.

Is there a way to fix my old Synaptics, that someone has tested and actually works?

I don’t want conjecture by some greenhorn.

Now, automatix errors out when trying to install packages. It could be the 2 packages that I’ve tried to install, but it seems strange that I was able to install 4 packages prior to the reboot.

Synaptics continues to work fine after installing Automatix2.