Fixed. From the debian bug report:
"apt-index-watcher has finally disappeared, and the new libapt-front
isn't building it anymore.
We implemented a better index update mechanism in libept, and
updated libapt-front to make use of it.
apt-index-watcher has been replaced by a better system which doe
** Changed in: libapt-front (Debian)
Status: Unknown => Fix Released
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Upgrade fails: apt-index-watcher
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** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #392934
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392934
** Also affects: libapt-front (Debian) via
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392934
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Upgrade fails: apt-index-watcher
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Yep, I had the same problem, and after 'sudo killall apt-index-watcher'
the upgrade went fine.
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I managed to fix this. I had to completely remove adept (which removed
apt-index-watcher, etc. etc)
then I re-installed adept and it installed properly.
The only thing I can think of was that apt-index-watcher was already
running when it tried to start it.. I'm not sure if that would have an
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