Repos problem...?

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exponentialmatrix
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Re: Repos problem...?

#11 Post by exponentialmatrix »

i had a problem of this sort once with bookworm, it could be an apt bug. Try deleting the relevant file in

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/var/lib/apt/lists/
it's the cache of the repo lists

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Re: Repos problem...?

#12 Post by siamhie »

exponentialmatrix wrote: Wed Aug 06, 2025 12:20 pm i had a problem of this sort once with bookworm, it could be an apt bug. Try deleting the relevant file in

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/var/lib/apt/lists/
it's the cache of the repo lists

It's a mirror issue shown by the error message. Just wait until the repo you use has been updated.
Don't go deleting apt lists all willy-nilly.

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exponentialmatrix
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Re: Repos problem...?

#13 Post by exponentialmatrix »

in my case it got permanently screwed up and i couldn't use apt any more. I suspect, they yanked something in the debian repo and i did an update at the wrong time and apt wasn't tested for that.

That folder is the cache( the content of the lists), the config is in etc (the urls of the lists). It's safe deleting stuff in the cache, it will simply redownload the list.

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