Re: Installing Mate

[Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

On 07/11/2013 06:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote:
> Dear List -
> 
> With the new Gnome desktop, I am up against a brick wall.  For some
> reason I cannot get apt-get to work. I have also tried the irc channel,
> with no results.
> 
> I have read the Wiki, followed it with no luck.

The below are not a valid sources.list files.

> This is the output from apt-get:
> 
> root@meow:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# dpkg --configure -a
> root@meow:/etc/apt/sources.list.d#  apt-get update && apt-get
> autoclean && apt-get -f dist-upgrade && apt-get autoremove
> E: Type 'apt-get' is not known on line 1 in source list
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mate.list
> E: The list of sources could not be read.
>

This link should you in creating a working sources.list file
/etc/apt/sources.list not in /etc/apt/sources.d/.

HIH