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I get error when sudo apt-get update how to resolve this problem ?

Posted on May 17, 2019

it:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/brackets/ubuntu xenial InRelease Hit:2 http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Ign:4 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:5 http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://eg.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Hit:7 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release
Hit:8 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_12.x xenial InRelease
Hit:9 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ InRelease
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [247 kB]
Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main Sources [868 kB]
Hit:13 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Fetched 247 kB in 2min 6s (1,953 B/s)
Reading package lists… Done E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease Unable to find expected entry ‘deb-src/source/Sources’ in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.



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have you solved the issue ? I have this error now and can’t overcome.

Hi, you can just edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and remove the problematic repository. Then the apt update should go though as normal.

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