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I have trouble with three of my PPAs. I stupidly installed some PPAs in order to install the newest version of Wine, not really knowing what I was doing and there is now a typo in some of them (I deleted a space character because I thought it wasn't supposed to be there). Now I can't open the software manager or install PPA purge. Using Mint 20.1.

Line 5 (and the following) in additional-repositories.list:

deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/groovy main
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/focal main
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/bionic main

What I get in the terminal when I try installing ppa purge or when trying to open synaptic is:

E: Malformed entry 5 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list (Component)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
E: Malformed entry 5 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list (Component)
E: The list of sources could not be read.

Somehow I am supposed to be able to install PPA purge "manually". But I don't want to break anything more than I already have :) So I am asking for HELP! Please! :)

Thanks!

UPDATE: I managed to correct the files, adding a space where it belongs. That allowed me to install PPA purge and open the software center again, yay!

Now I want to get rid of the PPAs: I understood using purge is best. but when I insert sudo ppa-purge ppa:wine-builds it doesn't work. Is that the correct PPA name?

muru
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lizaaaaa
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Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list in your terminal with

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list

Then replace all instances of groovy and bionic and replace them all with focal. Just a thought. I hope it works!

Logan
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