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How to repaire apt-get

Dear all:

Yesterday I was really careless. I manually deleted apt-get lock files in /var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/. Now my apt-get doesn't fucking work. :cry: Could anybirdy here please help me fix this problem? I'll be really really appreciated.

Thanks a lot!

Quote:

Originally Posted by openfun

On my install the lock file is a zero byte file so you could try touch /var/cache/apt/archives/lock then to make sure the permissions are right chmod 0640 /var/cache/apt/archives/lock.

Code:

ls -l /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

-rw-r-----  1 root root 0 2006-02-20 23:55 /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

I have no such file in the partial directory but if necessary repeat the above for it.

Code:

ls -l /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/lock

ls: /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/lock: No such file or directory

Y dont U try as root or sudo
"dpkg-reconfigure apt"