I am having trouble with aptitude update and apt-get update not downloading a certain list file (specifically http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com precise/universe Sources [5,019 kB]).
I can download it through my browser from here: http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/universe/source/Sources.bz2
Plan was to download through my local machine, FTP it to the server where aptitude and apt-get look for it and have it just Hit the file locally rather than re-download.
So I am looking for where apt downloads the source lists to, the package cache is of course /var/cache/apt but the package lists aren't there?
Best Answer
/var/lib/apt/lists/ : Storage area for state information for each package resource specified in sources.list
From: man apt-get