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Re: Wheezy: "aptitude update" fails



On Mon, 21 May 2012 03:11:30 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:

> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:50:01AM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:27:07 -0700, T Elcor wrote:
>> > 
>> > E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or
>> > old ones used instead.
>> 
>> Clean your local apt cache:
>> 
>> apt-get clean
> 
> Unrelated.

Now we know where the problem was, yes, but not before.

And it's working fine now (at least for me), the OP should restore the 
original sources.list and retry.

> The index files are stored under:
> /var/lib/apt/lists/

But apt was not complaining on the "local" index files...

> The command "apt-get clean" clears out files under:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/
> 
> Just wiped out your downloaded files. :(

And that was exactly the point, removing the local cache of downloaded 
deb files which could be bad or broken because of the presence of a proxy.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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