--- On Wed, 5/23/12, David Seira <davidseira@gmail.com> wrote: > I remove the index files in the directory you said but the > result is the same: I solved my recent problem with aptitude (and apt) by installing bzip2 package. Until then I was getting rather ridiculous error messages from aptitude, which in no way indicated that absence of bzip2 was the problem. Just FYI.