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.
