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RE: I am having trouble updating Linux Mint -- Can anybody help?

in #linux • 6 years ago

Yes like a dummy i installed it on hard disk and now I am stuck with a computer I can't update.

  sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
 [sudo] password for jesuscoins: 
  E: Type '**' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
  E: The list of sources could not be read.

This is what it printed out after trying ..

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     6 years ago 

    can you send the output of command

    cat /etc/apt/sources.list
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      Well it just printed out a bunch of encryption which was too large to put into this text,, but this is what it says at the end,

          deb cdrom:[Linux Mint 18.3 _Sylvia_ - Release amd64 20171124]/ xenial contrib main non-free
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