Bug#249361: apt-cache search Error: could not open file.

[Luser <luser@8128.biz>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal


Without doing anything to a system like updating or upgrading or
installing packages I suddenly get following error when running apt-cache
search 'term' as user:

$ search anagram
E: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages - open (13 Permission denied)


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux perlbroker 2.6.4-1-k7 #1 Tue Mar 16 12:28:31 CET 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=sr_YU, LC_CTYPE=sr_YU

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.2.5-11.5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library