Steven downing was once rumoured to have said:
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> This seems (to me!) to imply some kind of lack of memory (MMap??)
> So I made sure nothing much was running and tried again, but every
> subsequent apt-cache add came up with..
>
> E:The package cache file is corrupted.
>
> Which made me think the .deb was corrupted via Windows
> stoopidnes (It might still be I guess), but closer reading leads
> me to think the apt cache is corrupt
> (/var/cache/apt/packages.bin or whatever it is).....
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> Sooo, anyone got any ideas? Various Googling and
> slug.org/debian.org searches haven't yeilded anything yet.
have you even considered an apt-get update?
C.
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