[Bio-linux-dev] Problem with a package during update

Tim Booth tbooth at ceh.ac.uk
Mon Jun 20 04:57:30 EDT 2011


Morning,

Oops - I only made a trivial change to the package, but when you are
writing out DEBIAN/control files manually it is very easy indeed to
upset APT.  Everything should be fixed again now.

TIM

On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 01:18 +0100, Florent Angly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today, I ran this command:
> > sudo apt-get update
> And got this error:
> > Reading package lists... Error!
> > E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
> > E: Error occurred while processing bio-linux-mira-3rd-party (NewVersion2)
> > E: Problem with MergeList 
> > /var/lib/apt/lists/nebc.nox.ac.uk_bio-linux_dists_unstable_bio-linux_binary-amd64_Packages
> > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> Apparently, something is wrong with the package 
> bio-linux-mira-3rd-party, and it prevents apt-get update and upgrade to 
> complete.
> 
> Florent
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