I broke my Adept....SOLVED

[NexusHumanis]

After trying to add new sources to my atp list, adept wont work anymore. I get the error message; "The APT Database could not be opened! This may be caused by incorrect APT configuration or some similar problem. Try running apt-setup and apt-get update in terminal and see if it helps to resolve the problem."

What can I have done wrong, and how do I fix it?

[jankushka]

Re: I broke my Adept....

no worries.
we should be able to fix this.

please, start a konsole and post back here the result of:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

this is the main apt configuration file.
we can thus look for syntactical issues or anything...

and also the result of:

ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d

this is the directory listing of possible additional repositories files.
if there's any files in here, we will later need their content as well.

cheers

[NexusHumanis]

Re: I broke my Adept....

mads@Mads-laptop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Beta i386 (20080318.1)]/ hardy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted
deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse
deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main

[NexusHumanis]

Re: I broke my Adept....

~$ ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d
total 28
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1117 2008-06-26 11:33 index.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227 2008-06-26 09:56 medibuntu.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 226 2008-06-26 09:56 medibuntu.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 192 2008-06-26 09:56 playonlinux.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 192 2008-06-26 09:56 playonlinux.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181 2008-06-26 09:56 winehq.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180 2008-06-26 09:56 winehq.list.save

[NexusHumanis]

Re: I broke my Adept....

"http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main"

I believe this line could be what causes the problem, as that was the one I added just prior to the problem starting. Is there any way to remove it in konsole?

[jankushka]

Re: I broke my Adept....

that line should read:

deb [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu[/url] hardy main

it seems you simply need to prefix it with "deb " to fix the problem.

you can edit /etc/apt/sources.list just like any other file.
start a konsole.
enter:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

scroll down to the relevant line.
prefix it with "deb ".
then hit ctrl-x and y to save and exit.

now try again with adept.

hth


EDIT:
or remove it...

[NexusHumanis]

Re: I broke my Adept....SOLVED

Problem solved, using the method you suggested. Thanks a lot.

[NexusHumanis]

Re: I broke my Adept....SOLVED

But it seems removing it was really the correct solution, as the system WILL NOT upgrade my kde 4.0 to 4.1beta2 without breaking kdeutls, and causing hang-ups and crashes all around.

I have had to resort to sudo dpkg --configure -a several times in the process, and have now unchecked the launchpad repo from adept.

[jankushka]

Re: I broke my Adept....SOLVED

dependency hell is a different issue