How to solve this linear second-order partial differential equation?

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So I first want to find the general solution for:

$2U_t+U_{xt}=0$ where $U=U(x,t)$

Once I have a general solution, I also want to find the solution for the following initial value problem:

$U(x,0)=0$ , $U_t(x,0)=e^{2x}$

So far, my best attempt has been as follows:

1) Integrate both sides with respect to $t$ to get: $2U+U_x=f(x)$

2) Using integrating factor method:

$\partial/\partial x (Ue^{2x})=f(x)e^{2x}$

3) Integrate and solve for $U(x,t)$:

$U(x,t)=e^{-2x}\int f(x)e^{2x}dx$

Assuming everything I did here is correct, this seems to imply that $U$ is only a function of $x$.

But, this would disagree with the initial value problem, since $U_t(x,0)=e^{2x}$.

Am I missing something here?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.