On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: > dpkg is giving me an error which I am unable to fix. Is this a bug? > > lilypad:/home/pollywog#dpkg --configure -a > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0012' near line 1: > newline in field name `#padding' Erase the file it names, it is a bug. Jason