Re: slink on SLC: `You must upgrade dpkg'

[Alexander Jolk <jolk@ap-pc513b.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

James Troup writes:
 > Alexander Jolk <jolk@ap-pc513b.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:
 > 
 > > Unpacking bison (from bison_1.25-12.deb) ...
 > > 
 > > You must upgrade dpkg before installing this package.
 > 
 > Cool, you've somehow got a dpkg (<< 1.4.0.8); that's impressive.

How come dpkg thinks it is << 1.4.0.8?  dpkg --version says 1.4.0.30,
as does `dpkg --list dpkg'.  Something's wrong, but what?

Alex

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