On 05/03/11 12:43, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 05 March 2011 12:16:10 Lisi wrote: >> I am installing (or trying to!) Trinity on a fresh minimal install of >> Squeeze. But I have run into problems (which I did not the other day on a >> full install). >> >> I have edited my sources.list as instructed on the Pearson website, and >> have checked and rechecked the repositories. They seem to be fine, but >> when I do<aptitude update> I get a lot of error messages like this one: >> >> [ ERR] Reading package lists >> E: Encountered a section with no Package: header >> E: Problem with >> MergeList >> /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net_trinity_trinity_debi >> an_dists_squeeze_main_i18n_Translation-en E: The package lists or status >> file could not be parsed or opened. E: Couldn't rebuild package cache >> >> And obviously couldn't install Trinity either, with similar errors. I am >> completely baffled. Can anyone throw light on this? > > I commented out the trinity entries in the sources.list, updated without a > problem, and installed LXDE. > > Having not had teh problem from within LXDE the other day, I thought I might > as well see what happened if I uncommented the trinity repositories and > updated. No problems. So I attemted to install trinity from within LXDE, > and it is at this moment happily installing. > > So by going round the houses, I got to where I wanted to be. But what was > going on???? > > Lisi > I got similar errors yesterday. Looks like a temporary problem in the main and lv repos. I changed my sources.list and it was then OK (hash out the main repo till it's fixed): #trinity-alt deb http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/trinity/debian squeeze main deb-src http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/trinity/debian squeeze main deb http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/trinity-builddeps/debian squeeze main deb-src http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/trinity-builddeps/debian squeeze main