[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please respond to the above email as I only subscribe to the digest, and > not the actual mailing list. > > Guys, > > I tried running apt-get on a potato system running kernel 2.2.12 this > afternoon, and when it finished downloading the Packages.gz files, apt-get > exited with this error message: > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Malformed Priority line > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potat > o_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > I'm assuming that this might have something to do with incorrect > permissions being set or something along those lines. > > The only problem that I can see that I could have induced was the > accidental destruction of my suid.conf file a couple of days ago... As > far as I know, that's the only thing that has changed on my system. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance!!!
This is not your fault--the downloaded file is bad. Short answer: edit the /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages file with a text editor. There are two places where "optional" is misspelled as "optionnal". Just remove the extra 'n's, and everything will work. Long answer: Check out the "Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad" thread in this list. - Kris
