Re: apt package listing error.
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on Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Marshal Wong wrote:
> I was just using dselect to try to update my potato box, when I got
> this message while doing a "[U]date".
>
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Malformed Priority line
> E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> update available list script returned error exit status 100.
>
>
> Has the package listing format changed recently? I do tend to keep
> this box really up to date. Usually update once a day.
>
> Marshal
>
hiho,
it's a typo in the package file. replace all occurences of 'optionnal' with
'optional' in the package list file shown in the errmsg. then re-run update.
ciao -ap
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