<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Matthew Flaschen wrote: <blockquote cite="mid468B1D96.5020400@gatech.edu" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">David Vincent wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup sudo touch /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list.backup /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update ...will delete any downloaded lists you have and force apt to go out and download the latest copies... </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> >From where? You've hidden the repository list, not the downloaded packages lists. </pre> </blockquote> The question was: <pre wrap="">> is there a way to force apt-get update > to reget a package list even if it thinks > it's the same one that it has previously downloaded? The commands I suggested will (ungracefully) force APT to delete its already downloaded lists of packages available from each repo and then download them again. Yes, I hid the repo list but if you take a look at the second last line I then un-hide it again. -d </pre> </body> </html>