So my original problem was that I couldn't get the ubuntu software centre to startup, it would just freeze for a while loading and then would crash.
So i tried to remove USC : Successfully
When I came to re-install I ran into a problem with the sudo-apt install / get and loads of other commands.
This is what i get when i enter sudo apt-get update
E: Malformed line 56 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
I looked into the folder /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and there seems to be no source list file, however there appears to be one in its parent folder.
I'm still new to this and I couldn't find a solution anywhere on the forums. Help is greatly appreciated :)
Thanks !