Installing MPICH2 on ubuntu 16.04

Question

~$ sudo apt-get update
E: Syntax error /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02 prox:2: Extra junk at end of file

I want to installing mpich2 on my Ubuntu 16.04. How can I solve this problem?

Feel free to add the content of that file to your question. Might be easier to tell you want to remove that way. — Rinzwind, Oct 04 '16 at 07:56
Does this question and answer help: http://askubuntu.com/q/342179/57576 ? — andrew.46, Oct 04 '16 at 09:04

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 04 '16 at 07:47

Remove the "extra junk at end of file".

See the directory /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ and a file starting with 02 (I am not sure if prox:2 is part of the file name).

Use an editor like nano or vi to open the file and remove the malformed text that seems to be at the end of the file.

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