Bug#303030: "parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available'" after update

[Francois <f.taiani@computer.org>]

Hello Scott,

I still don't know where my problem came from, but I've (temporarily)
solved it with 'dpkg --clear-avail'. Before that dpkg was refusing to
install new packages from deb archives. Strangely enough however
synaptic seemed not to be impacted by the situation. Could it be that
synaptic messed up with dpkg's config file?

Anyway, everything seems back to normal now.

Kind regards

Francois

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:38, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:02 +0100, Francois Taiani wrote:
> 
> > After my last update "dpkg -l" does not work any more.
> > 
> Can you attach it?
> 
> Scott