By dzulfriday
Suddenly recently when i do apt-get update, it will end with this: Reading package lists… Error!
How to fix this?
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Run <pre>sudo apt-get clean <br>sudo apt-get update</pre> <br> <br>Does that fix it? It should regenerate the files in /var/lib/apt/lists
I got this error when I installed chef-server on a 1GB server and it was eating up all of the memory on the box, leaving nothing for apt-get to work with. After I removed chef, all was well again. Chef starts up its own copy of nginx, and postresql, so it’s a huge memory hog.
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