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So, I tried uninstalling the LAMP stack I had following the Ubuntu documentation for it. I also manually removed dbconfig-common.

Now, I'm unable to run apt-get update. When I do, I get the error message:

E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/htp could not be found.

After some digging, I've discovered that I no longer even have an /etc/apt/sources.list file.

Also, I've received an error, when trying to run:

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

That aptitude can not be found.

Does anyone have an idea of what I can do? I'm not able to find any documentation online that works - all the documentation out there is dated and no longer (or will not) work with 13.04.

I followed this link previously prior to posting my question and it did not work for me:

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  • Can you confirm in your question that /usr/lib/apt/methods/htp cannot be found is the error it is telling you? It should be http and not htp, but hopefuly that's a typo. – Jorge Castro Oct 23 '13 at 22:00
  • to confirm: root@01-K50IJ:~# sudo apt-get update E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/htp could not be found. – Richard Riley Oct 23 '13 at 22:06

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You have a corrupted line in /etc/apt/sources.list or one of the *.list files under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/.

For example:

$ echo "deb oops://ubuntu.com/ foo bar" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/something.list 
$ apt-get update
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/oops could not be found.

Try this command to spot it:

$ grep htp: /etc/apt/*.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
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