Cannot open software sources after removing a PPA

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Published on 2012-03-24T02:02:52Z Indexed on 2012/03/24 5:39 UTC
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After deleting a ppa entry in the sources.list file, I was not able to open the software sources application. Opening the software centre is fine. I tried running gksudo software-properties-gtk and got the follwong message:

 SoftwareProperties.__init__(self, options=options, datadir=datadir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 96, in __init__
    self.reload_sourceslist()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 580, in reload_sourceslist
    self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 91, in get_sources
    raise NoDistroTemplateException("Error: could not find a "
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template

Would appreciate if you can let me know how to solve this problem.

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