-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- on Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Marshal Wong wrote: > I was just using dselect to try to update my potato box, when I got > this message while doing a "[U]date". > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Malformed Priority line > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > update available list script returned error exit status 100. > > > Has the package listing format changed recently? I do tend to keep > this box really up to date. Usually update once a day. > > Marshal >
hiho, it's a typo in the package file. replace all occurences of 'optionnal' with 'optional' in the package list file shown in the errmsg. then re-run update. ciao -ap ___________________________________________________________________ Andreas Piesk [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp fingerprint: 23CB A7E2 2E53 373C DBCD 8EFC 7777 61C1 ___________________________________________________________________ What goes up, must come down. Ask any system administrator. ___________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: sHfmydDKVWxoou9SS7o1xsUj2zBG0Sgl iQEVAwUBN/OfaWFk4I9f3qPhAQGjhQgAvSNaNoNkgzqlI5MbJ09Vt5VLCGh4ltK4 y3EC+9q4JcYLv4LEnDRtvSSwyN8BT6my7d9+Oa0ApcjL2zt3RoNPFKbjRwIlKaP0 yATp3TicPjtSWP4S48xYfBEnuxzEy6JOE2/i3uJCpldB9Z0uGruyU8j6mRpwS9fw /GxUgo1rLcBZvlg5Nc13PyQxGFryNlMEfQLaQQfYmlAJ20D7eGLVB/4qx/fML4lC 5NzeHiFQkc8X6j8dkbU11ZMQXv6ne7O/b2HZTW25MeMtUuq9E/JbvtrI+ojBfw8E d6azWtZsvOBzQIJ11zWPTAHjyUX7BDDS9QeWhEaCh4Jq2EnWSUt6Kg== =Lk75 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
