This seemed to do the trick: dpkg --clear-avail apt-get update On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 06:39:24PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > I must have really messed something up. Running either dselect or apt-get > gives me this: > > E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter djkanter@nwu.edu