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Re: Package database corrupted



On 14 Mar 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> I've gotten mail from cron the last three days about bad lines in
> /var/lib/dpkg/status on one of my machines;

Try restoring the file from /var/backups -- the backup can be out of
date, though (ie. it may not reflect some recent changes of package
states). Probably it'd be better to edit and correct the file by hand,
I'd suggest you to try this first.

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