Re: Installing packages hangs
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Wolfgang Jährling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I thought the following is a problem which several people encountered
> before, and that there was a workaround for it, but I could not find
> anything about it with Google or in my local archive of the mailing
> lists.
>
If it is the same problem as before, and it looks as though it could be,
the work round is:-
rm -f /var/cache/apt/*.bin
apt-get update
apt-get install foo bar ...
The needs to be used to install any set of packages.
A proper solution would be welcome.
Phil.
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