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Posted: **Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:02 pm**

Its the little thing that matter.
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W:Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/debian/Release  Unable to find expected entry  universe/binary-amd64/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
, E:Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

$ **** /etc/apt/sources.list...

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import universe
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian squeeze contrib
## Depôt MultiSystem
deb http://liveusb.info/multisystem/depot all main

Posted: **Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:35 pm**

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import universe

Get rid of "universe", as there is no universe repository for Linux Mint, so that it looks like this:

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import

To edit your sources.list file:

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gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Indeed, it's the little things that matter, especially when the user goes and unintentionally breaks stuff. The "universe" entry is not there by default, nor should it be there, so either you messed up your sources.list yourself and you had a 3rd party tool mess it up for you. *shrug*

Posted: **Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:43 pm**

As a suggestion, you will probably get faster updates/downloads if you set your country code.

If you are in the USA:

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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

Notice where to insert the country code in the above example.

Posted: **Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:19 pm**

Ok, Cool thank you. This can be marked solved.

Posted: **Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:28 pm**

dr_zin wrote:Ok, Cool thank you. This can be marked solved.

You can do that yourself, by editing the title.

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