Re: dselect unstable problem SOLVED

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 05:55:00PM +0000, Adam Olejniczak wrote:
> Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
> 
> > > Reading Package Lists... Error!
> > > E: Malformed Priority line
> > > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1)
> 
> here is a problem
> 
> >
> > > E: Problem with MergeList
> > > /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i3
> > >
> > > 86_Packages
> > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> > >
> > > when i'm doing Update
> > >
> > > when I'm using stable version everything is working just fine
> > >
> > > any ideas ?
> > >
> > > thanks for help
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Adam Olejniczak
> > >
> >
> > exactly the same problem today morning only the server is
> > http://ftp1.us.debian.org
> >
> > any help is greatly appreciated
> >
> > Oleg
> 
> so solution is to edit file
> ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
> or what ever ftp server you use
> 
> and remove all the information about aleph
> save the file go to dselect sjip update and go to select, install and so on
> and it works (for me at least :-)

Or correct the spelling of "optionnal" to "optional" for aleph and
aleph-doc.

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