Help!, I've broken adept

[colskee]

Hi all, Been using Kubuntu for a week after installing over Windows on an old PC. I love it!!..but as expected, when stuff goes wrong I really don't have a clue why!

Anyway, in a futile to quest to view encryted DVD's and play MP3's I was trying to install Automatix and seemed to go wrong somewhere. Now adept wont work >

The adept database cannont be opened, this may be caused by incorrect APT configuration etc etc

I have tried the apt- get ( I think - copied it from the web) and apt-update methods of recovery but to no avail as there is a messed up line in my sources list ( something about deb on 'line 48') I've been looking around and apparantly you can edit the sources list, I had a look at using Nano in the terminal but scary and still don't know what I'm doing.

Is there anyway of resetting the sources list or viewing the sources list in a friendlier GUI and simply tweaking that one line. I promise not to get ahead of myself again!

Thanks,

[dibl]

Re: Help!, I've broken adept

Try

sudo dpkg --configure -a

If it works, write it down!

Here are some other useful adept-related commands to use periodically:

sudo apt-get install

sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo apt-get autoclean

[SheeEttin]

Re: Help!, I've broken adept

You can edit your sources.list file directly by hitting Alt+F2 and typing "kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list".
Or, for a nicer GUI, you can edit it through Adept. (I think Adept allows editing. I know it did in the last version of the sources.list editor.) Open Adept, then Adept (the menu, where File usually is) > Manage Repositories > Third-Party Software. Unfortunately, that doesn't have line numbers, so hopefully it's the Automatix one.

By the way, dibl, are you sure you're in the right place?

EDIT: The DVD decrypting package is either libdvdcss2 or libdvdread3. Or you could install both. Just so you know.

EDIT 2: This might be a good place for my sudo/kdesu speech-like thing:

kdesu is used for apps, while sudo is used for commands.

Even if you're running an app from a terminal, you MUST use kdesu. Using sudo for an app could actually do damage to your system (though how, I don't know).

[dibl]

Re: Help!, I've broken adept

dibl, are you sure you're in the right place?

Hard to say ... depends on whether colskee got any useful help ...

[colskee]

Re: Help!, I've broken adept

dibi and sheeEttin many thanks for your help. I tried the sudo route first but shyed away when I got the warnings about seriously messing up your system!

'Kate' worked like a charm. I simply moved down to the offending line, selected, deleted and saved. Now adept works again hurrah.

Right i'm off to get that Libdvd thing!

Thanks again fr you help

[SheeEttin]

Re: Help!, I've broken adept

Yeah, you don't really need to worry about messing up your system from that. Also long as you remember kdesu = KDE, you'll be fine.
As for messing up your computer in general, there's a reason most (if not all) of the system config files are writable only by root.