Short problem description: dpkg complains about wrong syntax in /var/lib/dpkg/available, and in fact there are a lot of package descriptions where the last line read something like (from memory) X-MediumDebian GNU/Linux potato CD 2... which should of course read X-Medium: Debian GNU/Linux potato CD 2... Now I cant use apt any more because on every run it rewrites the available file and then dpkg fails again :-( How that problem came up: I tried to upgrade my potato home computer to sid by apt-get dist-upgrade. After downloading everything and installing and configuring a few packages apt stopped because apt-utils hadn't been installed. Ok, installed that by hand using dpkg -i, fiddling around a bit to get the proper dependencies and finally apt and apt-utils were installed. From then on the X-Medium Problem emerged. Ideas? Nils -- *New* *New* *New* - on shellac records Windows HE - see top 10 reasons to downgrade on Historical Edition http://www.microsoft.com/windowshe
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