Re: Strange Behaviour of apt-get update

[Todd Suess <tsuess@inspace.net>]

To fix this, do the following:

edit 
/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.br.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i38 
6_Packages
with your favorite text editor (I use JOE), and search for aleph-dev and 
aleph-doc.  Correct the
spelling of the word optional in the priority fields of each package (there 
are 2).

save the file, and issue the command:

dpkg --merge-avail 
/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.br.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i38 
6_Packages

This will merge the package file into your database and you will have 
access to all packages.

Be aware that if you issue an apt-get update command again, you will have 
to redo the
above steps, at least until the package file is corrected on the remote end.

Regards,

Todd



At 09:19 AM 10/1/1999 +0000, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         today I'm trying to update my machines with apt and there is a 
> strange
> error:
> Hit ftp://ftp.br.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> Hit ftp://ftp.br.debian.org unstable/main Release
> Hit ftp://ftp.br.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
> Hit ftp://ftp.br.debian.org unstable/contrib Release
> Hit ftp://ftp.br.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages
> Hit ftp://ftp.br.debian.org unstable/non-free Release
> 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.br.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i3 
> 86_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> update available list script returned error exit status 100.
> Press RETURN to continue.
>
>         What is this?
>         Thanks,         Paulo Henrique
>
>
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