On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:08:15AM -0400, Marshal Wong wrote: > I was just using dselect to try to update my potato box, when I got > this message while doing a "[U]date". > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Malformed Priority line > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > update available list script returned error exit status 100. > > > Has the package listing format changed recently? I do tend to keep > this box really up to date. Usually update once a day.
Just wanted to say...me too. Started since the dpkg update I grabbed a day or two ago. Even an apt-get update does the same thing. Looking at the file in question, I see two lines that have "Priority: optionnal". Correcting those allows apt-get to complete as normal. A problem in the actual file descriptions? Hope that helps. Robbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
