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"Failed to fetch" while updating

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I'm trying to update from Ubuntu 12.10 lately but I keep getting the "Failed to fetch" error.

W: Failed to fetch

http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-security/Release 

Unable to find expected entry 'independent/binary-amd64/Packages' in

Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)



W: Failed to fetch

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/Release  Unable to find

expected entry 'independent/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong

sources.list entry or malformed file)



W: Failed to fetch

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-updates/Release  Unable

to find expected entry 'independent/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release

file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)



W: Failed to fetch

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal-backports/Release 

Unable to find expected entry 'independent/binary-amd64/Packages' in

Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)



E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I changed the server and deleted the source lists from /var/lib/apt/lists/ like some answers say but it still doesn't work.

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answered 2 Years ago istmasted · Accepted Answer

The message

(Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

Means that either some entry in your sources.list file is wrong or a line is malformed.

Searched the Web and I found this old bug, it is not exactly old, but Expired.

The solution (workaround is better word) is to examine your sources.list file and remove the word independent from the lines. Try it.

A good and detailed command to see all your sources.list entries is bellow:

find /etc/apt -name '*.list' -exec bash -c 'echo -e "

$1

"; cat -n "$1"' _ '{}' ;