Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

[Joris Huizer <jorishuizer@planet.nl>]

David R. Litwin wrote:
>         Are you able to run apt-get update?
>
>
>     Yes. The problem is with dpkg or debconf.  When using synaptic, it
>     said that debconf was broken.
>
>
> An update:
>
> # dpkg-reconfigure debconf
> dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 
> 359695 package `dcgui':
>  field name `
> /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: debconf is not installed
>  
> But, when I apt-get install debconf
>
> debconf is already the newest version.

You could force apt-get to reinstall:
apt-get --reinstall install debconf

HTH,

Joris