i can't get into Menu:Settings:Repositories

[nitrofurano]

synaptic 0.63.1

guest@macbook:/var/cache/apt/archives$ sudo synaptic
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 112, in <module>
    app = SoftwarePropertiesGtk(datadir=options.data_dir, options=options, file=file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 86, in __init__
    SoftwareProperties.__init__(self, options=options, datadir=datadir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 90, in __init__
    self.reload_sourceslist()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 538, in reload_sourceslist
    self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 90, in get_sources
    raise NoDistroTemplateException("Error: could not find a "
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template

guest@macbook:/var/cache/apt/archives$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick
guest@macbook:/var/cache/apt/archives$

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please run:
$ dpkg -l python-apt synaptic > output.txt
$ lsb_release -a >> output.txt

and attach this file (or the content) ?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

It looks like you are using the wrong version of python-apt for some reason. You may try to reinstall the maverick version.