Re: [SLUG] Apt cache file corrupt...

[Matthew Dalton]

Steven downing wrote:
> 'Apt-get update'  updates the list of available packages yeah?
> 
> And I was thinking that the packages cache file
> (/var/cache/apt/packages.bin??), was an index of files which had
> been downloaded from a network source (and possibly not
> yet installed on the system)


Read this:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newbiedoc/files/apt-get-intro.html


Matthew

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