I've used dselect/apt for a long time to update my debian distribution. For the last several days when I tried to update I get the following message.
Updating package file cache... E: Line 3 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potat o_main_binary-i386_Packages is too long.(2) I tried getting distribution from different sites -- no luck. I looked at the file mentioned. Line 3 is a normal line. I did apt-get clean to start over. I get the same message regardless of whether I download main, non-free, or contrib sections of the dist. I tried them all separately -- same result. The message seems unhelpful to me. Does anyone have a clue as to what's happening and how to fix it? I'm not sure what version of apt I have. That's one of things I was trying to upgrade. Thanks, JEB
