beryl inst. prob. on ubuntu 6.06

im following instructions on beryl wiki
see here

and i get this terminal error
kamikaze@kamikaze-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
E: Type 'wget' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list

would this have anything to do with my school's proxy?

It looks like you added a line to your sources.list that you were instead supposed to run.

1) Add only the line starting "deb" to your sources.list
2) Run the wget command (this downloads a "signature" for the new repository you added to sources.list so that when apt/aptitude tries to get files from here, it knows it's a "trusted source" )
3) Continue with the guide, and you'll be in wobbly window heaven soon!

Edit: You were definitely barking up the right tree Audio, sorry to snipe your answer