RE: Corrupt apt status and available lists
On 26-May-2000 Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a woody system, and pretty unstable hardware.
> Yesterday I had a crash when running apt-get upgrade.
> Since then apt-get update wont work any more, complaining about the status
> file, and when I try to apt-get updata I get some problems with
> the available file.
>
> Any idea how to regenerate these files?
>
mv /var/lib/dpkg/available /root/
apt-get update
should work (if not move it back)
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