On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Shane Wegner wrote:
> Updating package file cache... > E: Line 3 in package file > /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > is too long.(2) > > update available list script returned error exit status 100. > Press RETURN to continue. > > Has anyone had this and if so, is there a fix? Ah, the infamus glibc 2.1 breaks C++ programs. You can grab APT 0.3.0 from http://www.debian.org/~jgg and change all those nasty 'ftp' urls to nice 'http' ones. Or you can compile APT your self on a glibc 2.1 system, I'm told that fixes it. Jason