Fix The "E: Malformed line 52 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (type)" Error in LXLE 16.04.2.


Today we are looking at how to fix the list of sources could not be read error, which you might get when you get an error when installing updates or packages on your system in the terminal.

I made this video when I received an error in LXLE 16.04.2 but I saw that it was helpful for people with other distros as well.  So basically when you get an error like this, you simply open your source file with your favorite text editor and go to the line number where your error is, and simply put a # tag in front of that lie, that would just disable that line and everything should work, and if you need that line of code again, you can just remove the # tag again.

Please, do not delete the whole source file!  Your system needs it!  If you have any doubts, please contact me!

Commands Used:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

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