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I am trying to install GStreamer.

I have added the following line /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://vontaene.de/raspbian-updates/ .main

Calling the apt-get update command generates the following error:

E: Malformed line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)

E: The list of sources could not be read."

I tried several ways but nothing seems to work.

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tl;dr Start with fresh Raspbian and do not alter /etc/apt/sources.list to install GStreamer. Trying to fix APT repository is possible, but usually time-consuming task.

You can install GStreamer from the official repositories (as suggested in this answer):

sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-tools

Regarding your question: you need to add space between . and main.

man sources.list shows the following structure for the /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb [ options ] uri suite [component1] [component2] [...]

APT tries constructs an exact URL to the packages using:

http://<uri>/dists/<suite>/<component1>/<component2>

In case of GStreamer which is served from http://vontaene.de/raspbian-updates/dists/main/, the correct setting for sources.list is:

deb http://vontaene.de/raspbian-updates/ . main

It translates to http://vontaene.de/raspbian-updates/dists/./main/ - a reachable addres.

After setting the repository, you'd need to configure the keys. Anyway, currently setting this is unnecessary, see the top of the answer.

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