[SOLVED] How to retrieve the missing file sources.list in Ubuntu 14.04?

Issue

I am getting error message as specified below in Ubuntu 14.04:

WARNING:root:could not open file '/etc/apt/sources.list'

I am not sure whether i deleted it or it got damaged because of installations.

When i try to list out the directory /etc/apt

I can still see sources.list.d and sources.list.save except sources.list which is missing.

So is it possible to retrieve sources.list from the available 2 files in the directory?

Solution

Just rename sources.list.save to sources.list . sources.list.save is a backup file for sources.list. If the sources.list file got deleted accidentally, you may use the contents inside the sources.list.save file but the file name must be sources.list so that Ubuntu would take this file.

Answered By - Avinash Raj