Re: "aptitude update" Problem

["Randy Patterson - [Tech]" <tech@patterson-pcc.com>]

On Tuesday 16 October 2007 21:37, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:09:50PM -0500, Randy Patterson - [Tech] wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > When I run this command;
> >
> > aptitude update
> >
> > I get the following output;
> >
> > Hit ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net lenny Release.gpg
> > Get:1 ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net lenny/main Translation-en_US
>
> [snip similar]
>
> > Hit ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net lenny/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
> > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
> > correct the problem.
> > E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
> >
> > I have tried this in Kpackage as  well and get the same results. When I
> > run the dpkp command as instructed, it seems to run and perform the
> > update but I can run aptitude update again with the same results so the
> > problem wasn't corrected. I'm at a loss to know how to fix this.
>
> Assuming that your souces list is correct (has worked before), I would
> try a different mirror just to see.  Change the sources list and run
> aptitude update again.
>
> Doug.

I switched sources list back to the debian.org site and ran the command again 
with the same results.

Thanks,
Randy