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Re: apt-get problems



  I got it working. The problem was, I had used alien to convert afterstep.rpm
  to .deb, had installed it, then dpkg -r it. The conffiles were mentioned
  in the status list. So I did a dpkg --purge afterstep, and then, viola,
  apt-get is working again. whew, after a week of desperate attempts,
  I got it atlast. You understand how i feel?

Once upon a time, Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net> found a keyboard. And typed:
>> 
>> I am not able to use apt-get. If i run apt-get check or apt-get update,
>> it exits with error
>>    Unable to parse /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
>>   The status file could not be opened or parsed.
>>  Help.
>> 
>
>
>I would start by verifying that this file exists and has a reasonable 
>contents:
>
>[01:32:50 tmp]$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/status*
>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       945859 Apr 30 01:08 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       945991 Apr 30 01:07 
>/var/lib/dpkg/status-old
>[01:33:34 tmp]$ head /var/lib/dpkg/status
>Package: gnushogi
>Status: purge ok not-installed
>Priority: optional
>Section: games
>
>Package: offix-editor
>Status: purge ok not-installed
>Priority: optional
>Section: utils
>
>[01:33:41 tmp]$ 
>
>
>
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