Stephen Gran on 24 Nov 2003 10:34:09 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Debian - apt-get can't read one of it's package files


On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:16:29AM -0500, Mike Leone said:
> and so on, for about 9 meg. :-)
> 
> How best to fix this? Just delete that file, and re-run update?

Yes.  In fact, as the Debian servers had a suckit rootkit compormise,
I'd advise deleting all of the /var/lib/apt/lists/ files, or at least
checking them, and then rerunning apt-get update.  Debian feels that the
archives are safe as of this weekend, although other services are down
for now.

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