Re: apt-get/dselect update error
Hi Rolando
it looks like apt complains that you have an duplicate entry
http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/non-free
and - in fact - you do have it twice, at least for main and non-free.
Hannes
* Rolando Berrios <berri@inch.com> [020524 19:06]:
> I've been running into errors when trying to use apt-get or dselect to update my
> packages lists.
>
> For a while there I was getting errors saying that the file was corrupt. I
> checked the file and saw a strange "y" by itself on the line that was reported
> in the error. Don't know why that was happening, and now I get the following
> when I try anything:
>
> (snip) 8< ----------
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/main
> Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_potato_non-US_main_bin
> ary-i386_Packages)
> W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/non-free
> Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_potato_non-US_non-free
> _binary-i386_Packages)
> E: Unable to parse package file
> /var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Pack
> ages (1)
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
> (snip) 8< ---------
>
> Here's my sources.list file:
>
> # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
> # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
> # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
> #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
> #deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
>
> # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
> #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
>
> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3
> (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2
> (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1
> (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
>
>
>
> deb http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian/ potato main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian/ potato main non-free contrib
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib
> non-free
>
> # qmail
> deb http://smarden.org/pape/Debian potato unofficial pape
> deb-src http://smarden.org/pape/Debian potato unofficial pape
>
> # updates
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free
>
> # testing
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
>
> Anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening or what I can do about
> it?
>
> I'm almost out of hair here...
>
> -Rolando
>
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