Re: Aptitude message.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 08:55:05PM +1000, Weaver wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Am receiving this on 'aptitude update'.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> root@Telaman:/home/weaver# aptitude update
> Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease
> [ ERR] Reading package lists
> E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.au.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages
> (1)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> E: The package cache file is corrupted
> E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I'm able to run the update process without incident, and it finishes
> cleanly.
> Is anybody else getting this?
Yup, happened here last night. And looking at this morning, apt won't
inform of any updates/upgrades because of it.
I'm wondering if deleting that file would help? I'll give it a shot and
report back later.
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