Version: 2.1 Cruiser (using KDE 3.5.8) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages OS: Linux 1. Start Adept program 2. select Adept drop-down menu 3. select Manage Repositories 4. select Third-Party Software 5. select Add 6. enter local file name (etc/tmp/xxx.inf) 7. select Reload information about available software 8. crash I loaded the driver for a wireless device from a CD into a local file, thinking that adept would treat it the same as if it were accessed over the internet. Adept added the local file name to the end of etc/apt/sources.list, causing Adept to crash. I could not edit the file (only root could edit it). apt-get update did not fix the problem. I installed the system again (Kubuntu 7.10). Why can't Adept work on local files?
I can confirm this problem. This happens everytime the entered line is not a valid syntax (i.e. the "deb" at the beginning is missing). Since adept after that does not start again without an error widget and successive exiting, such problems cannot be fixed with adept anymore, but only by manually correcting the sources.list file. See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adept/+bug/237298 which was confirmed in Kubuntu Hardy 8.04 with adept version 2.1.3ubuntu25 The input should be checked for syntax before propagated to the sources.list file. Additionally, it should be possible that lines can be unchecked in the adept interface even if there are syntax errors.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 148725 ***