It seems that the problem is now corrected. I followed the advice of a few different people and things work without errors now.
I moved the package that was complaining, removed the duplicate entries, and tweaked my network settings and things are now great. Thanks for the advice everyone! -Rolando On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:29:10AM -0400, Rolando Berrios wrote: > 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] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
