Re: ipkg corruption?

Spiros Kapetanakis wrote:

>Hello,
>
>with thelp from this list, I have revived my Z5500.
>
>I managed to download a package or two from the command-line ipkg tool
>and all was going well. At some point, I wanted to install another
>package and tried to find it in the feed browser. The package was
>gpe-mini-browser which is part of base. I did:
>
>ipkg install gpe-mini-browser
>
>half-expecting it to just work but it failed with some error code,
>suggesting I should do an update of the ipkg cache. So, I did. The
>update itself failed with error code 6. Since then, nothing works.
>ipkg is simply not updating, downloading or installing anything.
>
>Is it possible that the ipkg cache has been corrupted? If so, how do I
>clean it out? Has anyone else seen this problem?
>  
>
Did you get any errors performing the update?

That sounds like the symptoms of having your feeds setup wrongly (or 
your network connection being down) and being unable to download the 
package.


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