I've been running into errors when trying to use apt-get or dselect to update my packages lists.
For a while there I was getting errors saying that the file was corrupt. I checked the file and saw a strange "y" by itself on the line that was reported in the error. Don't know why that was happening, and now I get the following when I try anything: (snip) 8< ---------- Reading Package Lists... Error! W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_potato_non-US_main_bin ary-i386_Packages) W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_potato_non-US_non-free _binary-i386_Packages) E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Pack ages (1) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. (snip) 8< --------- Here's my sources.list file: # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free #deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian/ potato main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/debian/ potato main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free # qmail deb http://smarden.org/pape/Debian potato unofficial pape deb-src http://smarden.org/pape/Debian potato unofficial pape # updates deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free # testing deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free Anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening or what I can do about it? I'm almost out of hair here... -Rolando -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
