Re-installed Zorin lite 15.3. Downloades Realtek drivers via terminal no problem. Then attempted down load for balena etcher, and got the following:
Malformed entry 52 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (Component)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
E: Malformed entry 52 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (Component)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
This now appears every time I enter a command line in the terminal. Cannot install Synaptic because of this, the tool I would usually employ.
Ideas?
Can you run in terminal
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
and paste the output here?
Here it is:
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#deb cdrom:[Zorin-OS 15.3 Lite 64bit]/ bionic main restricted
newer versions of the distribution.
deb Index of /ubuntu bionic main restricted
Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
distribution.
deb Index of /ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted
deb-src Index of /ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted
N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb Index of /ubuntu bionic universe
deb Index of /ubuntu bionic-updates universe
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
multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
security team.
deb Index of /ubuntu bionic multiverse
deb Index of /ubuntu bionic-updates multiverse
deb-src Index of /ubuntu bionic-updates multiverse
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 Index of /ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src Index of /ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
'partner' repository.
This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
deb Index of /ubuntu bionic-security main restricted
deb-src Index of /ubuntu bionic-security main restricted
deb Index of /ubuntu bionic-security universe
deb-src Index of /ubuntu bionic-security universe
deb Index of /ubuntu bionic-security multiverse
deb-src Index of /ubuntu bionic-security multiverse
Everything there looks normal, though I cannot directly see what is commented out and what is not.
This is because the Discourse Forum software reads the (#) differently causing it to treat that differently in your paste above.
So, let's try commenting out the troublesome line in your sources list and see if that resolves the issue. In terminal, you can run\
sudo sed -i '52s/(.*)/#\1/' /etc/apt/sources.list
to comment out line 52.
Then run
sudo apt update
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Hi Aravisian. I re-installed so I didn't need to check this out in the end. I'll keep it in mind though. Reinstall appears to have worked. I was playing with Pop! which wanted to install on two partitions, including sda1. I've also cleaned that up so it may have been contributing. I'll keep this in mind if it comes up again.