[plug] Debian Sarge AMD64 Update Problem

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 3/9/07, Paul Dean <paul at thecave.ws> wrote:
>
> Tomasz,
>
> "rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*" cleans only the
> lists not the archive.
>
> The archive lives in /var/cache/apt/archive/ .
>
> But you should not just rm these and apt will do it nicely without
> removing other files needed.
>
> As a rule of thumb, rm is a last resort to fixing "stale" files.
>
>
Phah. It will recreate as needed. Apt is fairly sturdy. And I've had all
kinds of issues since apt moved to python in the background that only a nuke
of these files will resolve.

But if you want to be nice go ahead ;)

Tomasz
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