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Re: apt failure



Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote:
> Þann 2006-10-01, 08:56:58 (+0000) skrifaði Francesco Pietra:
>> With Debian etch i386 I am faced by a known issue that I met for the first 
>> time after an apt-get upgrade:
>>
>> Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
>>
>> To my apt.conf
>> APT::Authenticaction::TrustCDROM "true";
>> Acquire::http::Proxy "false"
>>
>> I added
>> APT::Cache-Limit 25165824
>>
>> suggested on internet, which did not help, however.
>>
>> Unable to check my version of APT, suppose it is 0.6.46. Someone said 
>> downgrade to 0.6.45 (where to find that, which backport?)
>>
>> Any better idea?
>>
>>
>> Not checked on the amd64 machine (yesterday apt-get was working; now 
>> performing calculation, better do not disturb)
>>
>> Thanks for advice
>>
>> francesco pietra
> 
> Hi Francesco
> 
> I think this was addressed in another thread on this list just
> yesterday or the day before that and there was a link to backports
> (dont remember the link unfortunately), have a look though the archive
> of this list (found on lists.debian.org).
> 
> HTH
> 
> Oli
> 
> 

HTTP://snapshot.debian.net is always a good place to find old versions
of packages :)

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