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The traceback I'm getting makes me believe I have to reset all my repositories on my Ubuntu 12.04 installation. How do I do that?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 183, in <module>
    if not sp.add_source_from_line(line):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 718, in add_source_from_line
    self.set_modified_sourceslist()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 471, in set_modified_sourceslist
    self.save_sourceslist()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 635, in save_sourceslist
    self.sourceslist.save()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/aptsources/sourceslist.py", line 396, in save
    files[source.file] = open(source.file, "w")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/apt/sources.list.d//noobslab-themes-precise.list'
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possible duplicate of How to remove wrong command ran earlier? – Rinzwind Jan 1 at 19:56
What command were you running? What did you do before to break it? Be more specific on what you want "to reset"? Do you want to disable all non-official repositories you've enabled earlier, do you want to re-download all indexes of them, or do you want to revert all packages installed from non-official repositories? – gertvdijk Jan 1 at 22:11
I want to redownload all of the indexes again – Peter Wagg Jan 3 at 1:48

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Did you add a PPA containing a dash(-) in its name?

If so, seems like you've hit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/789859

What's the output of running sudo apt-get update ?

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Reading package lists... Done – Peter Wagg Jan 1 at 20:07
comment rather than and answer – Ringtail Jan 1 at 20:15
Reading the bug report details in the comments I think the OP should see other symptoms than this Python IOError. – gertvdijk Jan 1 at 20:46

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