Bug#683354: Bug#684038: /usr/bin/apt-get: apt-get remove says " package cache file is corrupted"

[Nigel Horne <njh@bandsman.co.uk>]

On 06/08/12 18:01, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Nigel Horne<njh@bandsman.co.uk>  wrote:
> > Could you give me the URL, please, where I download the file manually?
> Huh. hurd-i386 is unfortunately not a release architecture (= no testing),
> so the files are gone from the archive. After the next mirrorsync you should
> be able to get 0.9.7.4 as out-lined above as it is currently building, so it
> should be ready soon.
>
> Alternatively you might have the files still in /var/cache/apt/archives
> (if you haven't done an 'apt-get clean' or similar in the recent past).
> dpkg -i apt_0.9.7.2_hurd-i386.deb libapt-pkg4.12_0.9.7.2_hurd-i386.deb
I've found the previous version on a DVD image, I can confirm that the 
workaround works.

Thanks for your help.

-Nigel

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