Re: apt-get problems
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:42:11PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote:
>
> I am not able to use apt-get. If i run apt-get check or apt-get update,
> it exits with error
> Unable to parse /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
> The status file could not be opened or parsed.
> Help.
Some suggestions:
Move /var/lib/dpkg/status to somewhere safe and copy each of the back-up
files in turn to /var/lib/dpkg/status.
Try dselect instead of apt-get
Search deja and/or the Debian mail archives for /var/lib/dpkg/status.
Brian.
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