[SOLVED] I broke my synaptic. WAH!

[buccaneere]

When I open Synaptic GUI (or CLI), I get this:



[root@localhost ~]# apt-get install synaptic
E: Vendor block FingerPrint is invalid
E: Vendor block Name is invalid
E: The list of sources could not be read.
[root@localhost ~]#

Can I restore Synaptic from the LiveCD? Is there ANY way?

[devils casper]

There is no need to re-install Synaptic. Something is wrong with sources only.
Post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list file here.

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

[buccaneere]

There is no need to re-install Synaptic. Something is wrong with sources only.
Post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list file here.

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Here's another error as I open Synaptic GUI:

E: Vendor block FingerPrint is invalid
E: Vendor block Name is invalid
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.

If I click on 'Settings/Repos', I get a blank repo window, with the error window on top. Close the error window, and the repo window goes away too. ???


Password:
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# Package repository URL's

# Signed repositories have a [<key>] where <key> is the name of the key
# as it appears in vendors.list. If you remove it, no digital signature check
# will be made.

rpm Index of /linux/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm Index of /pub/pclinuxos/apt pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm Index of /pub/linux/distributions/texstar/pclinuxos/apt pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm Index of /pub/metalab/distributions/texstar/pclinuxos/apt pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm ftp://ftp.belnet.be/pub/mirror/pclinuxonline.com/apt/ pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm ftp://ftp.ch.debian.org/mirror/pclinuxos/apt/ pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm Index of /MIRRORS/pclinuxos/apt pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm FTP archive directory /os/Linux/distr/texstar/pclinuxos/apt/ pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm ftp://ftp.pbone.net/pub/pclinuxos/apt/ pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm ftp://rm.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/pclinuxos/apt/ pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm http://mirrors.lastdot.org:1280/pclos/apt/ pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm ftp://ftp.eth0-up.com/pclinuxos/apt/ pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm Index of /pub/pclinuxos/apt pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm Index of /pclosusers/pclosfiles pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm Index of /pub/linux/pclinuxos/apt pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm Index of /pub1/linux/texstar/pclinuxos/apt pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/pclinuxos/apt/ pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

# rpm ftp://klid.dk/pclinuxos/apt/ pclinuxos/2007 main extra nonfree kde

[buccaneere]

Here's another error as I open Synaptic GUI:

If I click on 'Settings/Repos', I get a blank repo window, with the error window on top. Close the error window, and the repo window goes away too. ???


Password:
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# Package repository URL's

# Signed repositories have a [<key>] where <key> is the name of the key
# as it appears in vendors.list. If you remove it, no digital signature check
# will be made.

repo1
repo2
repo3

Does this tell me anything?

GNU nano 2.0.6 File: /etc/apt/vendors.list

simple-key "PCLinuxOS" {
FingerPrint "63A28CBDA7A8387E1A532C1E59E70DEE9B4A4024";
Name "PCLinuxOS (PCLinuxOS official keys) <pclinuxos@pclinuxos.com>";
}
simple-key "" {
FingerPrint "";
Name "";
}










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[devils casper]

I am not a PCLinuxOS user but contents of sources.list and vendors.list files are correct. Execute this

sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update

Post error message here, if any.

[buccaneere]

I tried apt-get synaptic install, clean, update, all 3, but the return was always the same as the pop-up error post 1 pic above.

I was in the right neighborhood, but I couldn't get the last puzzle piece in place.

Solved here:
I broke Synaptic! Meltdown.