Unable to Update

[Chris Mohler]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Roger Benham <rogerbenham2000 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Thanks for all the help but I'm still stuck!

> **********Terminal gave these replies:
> roger at roger-desktop:~$ sudo -s
> root at roger-desktop:~# aptitude update
> Segmentation fault
> root at roger-desktop:~# aptitude upgrade
> W: The "upgrade" command is deprecated; use "safe-upgrade" instead.
> Segmentation faultsts... 0%
> root at roger-desktop:~# safe-upgrade
> bash: safe-upgrade: command not found
> root at roger-desktop:~# aptitude safe-upgrade
> Segmentation faultsts... 0%
> root at roger-desktop:~# aptitude "safe-upgrade"
> Segmentation faultsts... 0%
> root at roger-desktop:~#

Could this be a corrupt apt cache?  I've never had one since moving to
Ubuntu, but this should clear it out (just tried it myself):
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin

Then you should be able to 'sudo aptitude update', etc.

HTH,
Chris