Comment 17 for bug 368361

On 04/29/2009 04:15 PM, YoBoY wrote:
> By the way (sorry for the double post) have you tried to reinstall the
> "apt" package ?
>
> can you join the /etc/apt/apt.conf file (if this file exist) and say us
> the read/write privilèges for this file ? Give us also the rights of the
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d directory (a "ls -l /etc/apt/ " for exemple)
>
> Tanks
>
Attaching /etc/apt/apt.conf Please note that this file did not exist,
but I added it to prevent installation of recommended packages. I have
not tried reinstalling the "apt" package.

Here is "ls -l /etc/apt":
=====================
username@host:~$ ls -l /etc/apt/
total 36
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2009-04-27 12:27 apt.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-04-27 13:18 apt.conf.d
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2009-04-27 12:14 secring.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3351 2009-04-28 08:16 sources.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3256 2009-04-28 08:15 sources.list~
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 2009-04-16 23:27 sources.list.d
-rw------- 1 root root 1200 2009-04-27 12:14 trustdb.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6713 2009-04-27 12:14 trusted.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6713 2009-04-27 12:14 trusted.gpg~
=====================

Thanks!