Re: apt-get not working anymore
Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> maybe that is an issue for debian-user, so I put it in the To too
> although I am not subscribed there.
Yes it is ... removing -devel and cc-ing you since you aren't subscribed.
>
> If you look to Bug #497617 there is a long time bug in apt first only
> targeting the German translations but now it is independent of the
> locales.
>
> When I run any apt-get command I get the error:
> E: Wow, you exceeded the number of versions this APT is capable of.
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.ethz.ch_mirror_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
I had a look at this bug, from what I can tell you're correct in that it
has nothing to do with translations as such.
It seems to be a problem with having too many entries in
/etc/apt/sources.list such that the total number of packages indexed is
greater than 65,536.
What do you have in your sources.list? Can you try commenting some of
them out? (Don't forget to do a 'apt-get update' if you do that).
Are you using Lenny? The bug appears to have been fixed in the versions
of apt in testing and sid so if you're not using Lenny (or maybe you are
using a hybrid system and that's why you have so many entries in
sources.list?), then you could try a more up-to-date version of apt.
Cheers,
David.
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