That apt-get line should be changed to

deb http://code.ros.org/packages/ros/ubuntu lucid main

Note that lucid and main are NOT part of the http URL.

Hope that helps.

- Eric

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Bill Tandy <wtandy@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm new to Linux, ROS, etc, but am making a valiant effort to come up to
> speed.
>
> When installing in 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) I get the following error:
>
> "E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list
> (dist)"
>
> when running the command:
>
> "sudo apt-get update"
>
> When I navigate to the directory and open the list I see:
>
> deb http://code.ros.org/packages/ros/ubuntu/lucid/main
>
> which seems harmless enough to me.
>
> Does anyone know what's going on?  I'm paranoid that it's going to be
> something simple so I apologize in advance.  I did read many, many articles
> and such before posting, but I'm coming up empty.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
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