[ATrpms-users] The vengence of apt

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Fedor Pikus wrote:

> On 2/12/06, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
>>
>> Panu Matilainen has done some great work on apt including basic
>> multilib support, please read his posting on the apt-rpm list:
>>
>> http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/pipermail/apt-rpm/2006-January/002719.html
>>
>> Latest apt/synaptic ATrpms packages have been rebuilt with Panu's
>> patches, and have been placed in ATrpms a week ago. They work
>>
>
> I installed the latest from ATRPms (apt-0.5.15cnc7-61.rhfc4.at) and when I
> run "apt-get update" I get multiple version warnings for all packages which
> are present in i386 and x86_64 versions. Synaptic (
> synaptic-0.57.2-25.rhfc4.at) says that I have 754 broken packages. apt-get
> -f install would like to remove 1197 packages. Smart is perfectly happy, on
> the other hand.

Clean up the cache first:
rm -f /var/cache/apt/*.bin

I think I've automated the cache rebuild since the first version but I'll 
check - this should be all automated.

 	- Panu -