Re: Strange apt-get behaviour...
umrenic2@cc.UManitoba.CA wrote:
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> Please respond to the above email as I only subscribe to the digest, and
> not the actual mailing list.
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> Guys,
>
> I tried running apt-get on a potato system running kernel 2.2.12 this
> afternoon, and when it finished downloading the Packages.gz files, apt-get
> exited with this error message:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Malformed Priority line
> E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potat
> o_main_binary-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
> I'm assuming that this might have something to do with incorrect
> permissions being set or something along those lines.
>
> The only problem that I can see that I could have induced was the
> accidental destruction of my suid.conf file a couple of days ago... As
> far as I know, that's the only thing that has changed on my system.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance!!!
This is not your fault--the downloaded file is bad.
Short answer: edit the
/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages
file with a text editor. There are two places where "optional"
is misspelled as "optionnal". Just remove the extra 'n's, and
everything will work.
Long answer: Check out the "Unstable package list at
ftp.debian.org is bad" thread in this list.
- Kris
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