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

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.