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Re: apt-get problems



  The status files are there under /var/lib/dpkg/, and there are also
  a methlock and lock file. I don't know why it is there. I tried removing
  it, still no use. the locks comeback. May be that's not the prob. 
  Somebody please help me. You know how tough life could get without
  apt-get in a debian machine.

Here are those command outputs on my machine.

Package: telnet
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: net
Installed-Size: 176
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
Source: netkit-telnet
Version: 0.16-4potato.1
Replaces: netstd
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libncurses5
308k -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         302k Apr 29 20:50 /var/lib/dpkg/status
308k -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         302k Apr 29 20:50 /var/lib/dpkg/status-old
248k -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         240k Apr 27 15:50 /var/lib/dpkg/status.old
308k -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         302k Apr 29 20:50 /var/lib/dpkg/status.yesterday.0
 92k -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          85k Apr 28 16:13 /var/lib/dpkg/status.yesterday.1.gz
 92k -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          85k Apr 27 16:36 /var/lib/dpkg/status.yesterday.2.gz
 84k -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          78k Apr 27 15:50 /var/lib/dpkg/status.yesterday.3.gz
240k -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         236k Apr 27 15:50 /var/lib/dpkg/status.yesterday.4


Once upon a time, Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net> found a keyboard. And typed:
>> 

>
>I would start by verifying that this file exists and has a reasonable 
>contents:
>
>[01:32:50 tmp]$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/status*
>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       945859 Apr 30 01:08 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       945991 Apr 30 01:07 
>/var/lib/dpkg/status-old
>[01:33:34 tmp]$ head /var/lib/dpkg/status
>Package: gnushogi
>Status: purge ok not-installed
>Priority: optional
>Section: games
>
>Package: offix-editor
>Status: purge ok not-installed
>Priority: optional
>Section: utils
>
>[01:33:41 tmp]$ 
>
>
>
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