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Re: error message after apt-get update



On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 05:20:01 +0100
rlharris@oplink.net wrote:

> On Sat, November 28, 2015 8:50 pm, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> > I was hoping someone might know what this message means after running
> > apt-get update:
> ...
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > W: Problem unlinking the file q - Clean (21: Is a directory)
> 
> Now and then something gets corrupted with apt.  A fix I have needed once
> or twice a year is (if I recall correctly) to delete the directory
> /var/lib/apt/lists.
> 
> Russ

Ah, thanks so much..the offending q directory was in there (///lists) so I just
deleted that instead, but all is now well.

-- 
CK


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