On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:29:50PM +0800, LUK ShunTim wrote:
> Running "apt-src install package_name" fails with this message
> "Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/_opt_deb-repo_source_Sources 
> (2)E: No such source" for whatever package.

> It appears that the file /var/lib/apt/lists/_opt_deb-repo_source_Sources
> is empty.  I tried removing it and ran "apt-src update" but just an empty
> _opt_deb-repo_source_Sources is generated.

Shouldn't you be using apt-*get* update to manage the files in
/var/lib/apt/lists?

Does either apt-src update or apt-get update give you an error message
explaining why this Sources list would be empty?

Right now, this doesn't really look to me like an apt-src bug.

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