(ubuntu 18.04.1) i installed etcher, rebooted some time afterwards, and got this:
when i put sudo apt-get update in the terminal, i essentially get the same thing:
E: Type 'sudo' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/balena-etcher.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
anyone know a fix? i’m pretty pissed.
also, for additional context, i attempted to install etcher via the terminal using the github instructions but i got confused and i couldn’t get it to work, so i tried with the appimage and it worked - i assume it must have been a problem with me f****ng up with the terminal installation
hello? i haven’t been able to update or install anything since this first appeared! this is really making me mad!
It looks like a malformed list.
Could you paste the output of the following command here:
sudo cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/balena-etcher.list
E:type sudo is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/balena-etcher.list.
Same here,this is what i get when I run sudo cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/balena-etcher.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install balena-etcher-electron
Thanks for the help…
The error message is quite explicit: Type 'sudo' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/balena-etcher.list
This means the first line of the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/balena-etcher.list file starts with sudo which is not expected by apt.
This file should contain exactly this line deb https://deb.etcher.io stable etcher
Update the file or remove it, then you’ll be able to sudo apt-get update again.