Re: apt-get error

Time to do a "apt-get update".

bob kuehne wrote:
>
> hi, more weirdness for my nfs intimate install: apt-get seems to not work
> correctly. so, i try to install the cube, byt get a 'cannot scan
> updates dir' error. for example:
>
> --
> intimate:/dev# apt-get install wmcube
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> wmcube
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded.
> Need to get 29.1kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Get:1 http://intimate.handhelds.org unstable/main wmcube 0.98-2 [29.1kB]
> Fetched 29.1kB in 0s (30.0kB/s)
> dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': Value too
> large fo
> r defined data type
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> --
>
> now, i thought, ok, do i not have perms for that dir?
>
> intimate:/dev# ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/ |grep update
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 9 Jun 22 2001 updates
>
> ok. is there stuff in that directory? nope:
>
> intimate:/dev# ls -al /var/lib/dpkg/updates/
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 9 Jun 22 2001 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 22 2001 ..
>
> vat is it? i don't know...
>
> mo help! thanks,
> bob
>
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Received on Fri Jul 06 2001 - 07:57:33 EDT