On Thursday 27 February 2003 02:55 am, Tom Nielsen wrote:

I tried updating Synaptic and got an error during download of updates (sorry, I can't remember what it was), but now I can't even start Synaptic. I keep getting the following errors....

could not open RPM package list file

/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_SuSE_8.0-i386_base_pkgl ist.packman-i386:

Problem opening

/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_SuSE_8.0-i386_base_pkgl ist.packman-i386

The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

This happened to me once before and the solution made me thump my head. I just can't remember it.

Thanks, Tom

Try removing the packman-i386 from /etc/apt/sources.list then rerunning apt-get update. -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.1