Re: update breaks tex
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:02:27AM -0500, Tomasz Kosinski wrote:
> Yesterday, I updated my (testing) tetex installation with:
> apt-get install tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-doc tetex-eurosym tetex-extra
>
> the installation was incomplete and exited with:
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 5926 package `tetex-extra':
> empty file details field `MD5sum'
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Hmm. Try running "dselect update" (assuming that apt-get is your
dselect backend). That should fix things somewhat.
Julian
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