E: The package cache file is corrupted E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

[manzur]

this is happening in jaunty jackalope beta release with last updates when checking for new ones
amd64 nvidia

if u require more info, feel free to ask about it

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Do you have packagekit installed ?

[manzur (sl-solaris)]

manzur@manzur-desktop:~$ packagekit
bash: packagekit: command not found
manzur@manzur-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install packagekit
[sudo] password for manzur:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
packagekit is already the newest version.
packagekit set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
manzur@manzur-desktop:~$