PPA weirdness

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 04:06:16PM +0200, David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) wrote:
> I can't see the file in /var/lib/apt/lists/
> 
> but getting this message
> 
> E: Could not open file 
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_capitanterrex_ubuntu_dists_karmic_main_source_Sources 
> - open (2: No such file or directory)
> 
> Is this a bad database entry?

It's normal to get this message if you add a PPA repository to your
sources.list but do not run sudo apt-get update.

sudo apt-get update should fix it.

Marius Gedminas
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