Adept : solved

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Adept : solved

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I have just installed (twice actually because I thought I had missed the root password window)..realise now there wasn't one. This is Sudo I suppose and I shouldn't complain since I don't understand it.

Anyway I figured that my user password would do where normally I would use su and I managed to download Thunderbird without issue.
If I try Adept now I am told the Adept database could not be opened. 'Try running apt-setup or apt-get in a console'. How? Why one download and no more?

I am really frustrated with this...the scroll in my Firefox is running about three lines an hour and looks like rippling water. I'll track this sort of thing down but I would like some help with Adept or Apt-get or Su.

Thankyou.
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Post by VRP »

If you have the same issue I had, you need to open a text editor as root in a terminal:

sudo kate

(ignore random error messages)

then navigate to this file:

/etc/apt/sources.list

I found some random characters at the end of this line:

deb http://www.linuxmint.com/repository bianca/

twhich just needed deleteing. Save the file and off you go.

This has happened to me a couple of times when adding new sources.

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There was a . at the end of a line. I'm OK now.
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