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Re: Error with dpkg...???



On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:22:19PM -0600, Larry Shields wrote:
> Not sure if anyone else has had this problem, but here's what I am now 
> getting when I use synaptic to install a package...
> /var/lib/dpkg/status near line 2873 package wine-utils missing version...

That indicates that /var/lib/dpkg/status is corrupt. There's a backup in
/var/lib/dpkg/status-old and several more in /var/backups; restore the
newest of those and see if it fixes things.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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