problem with apt-get
Hey, i have a problem with apt-get........
I am not able to use apt-get. If i run apt-get check or apt-get update or
apt-get install "..." or something like that,
it exits with error
Unable to parse /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
The status file could not be opened or parsed.
I tried the file /var/lib/dpkg/status.old but it did not help.
A diff between the files status and status.old gave:
> Package: mtools
> Status: install ok unpacked
> Priority: standard
> Section: otherosfs
> Installed-Size: 412
> Maintainer: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>
> Version: 3.9.8-7
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
> Suggests: floppyd
> Conffiles:
> /etc/mtools.conf newconffile
> Description: Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
> Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix
> without mounting them. It supports Win'95 style long file names,
> OS/2 Xdf disks, ZIP/JAZ disks and 2m disks (store up to 1992kB on a
> high density 3 1/2 disk).
> .
> Also included in this package are commands to eject and manipulate
> the write/password protection control of Zip disks.
I think it's a bigger problem, can anybody help me? Thanks, Dirk
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