Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:53:43PM -0000, Tommy McDaniel wrote:
> I absorbed everything that was posted about this, and gained a better
> understanding of how everything works, but there is still a problem. I
> decided it was time to start downloading some packages and see if I could
> get everything to work, but when I went to dselect to see what I wanted to
> install so I could get a list of packages to download, it occurred to me
> that I still have my original problem, that dselect gives me that "parse
> error: duplicate value for user-defined field 'meta-package' in file
> /var/cache/apt/available" or whatever it was, I wrote the exact error
> message in my posting that started this thread. That was the root of all the
> problems. Dselect won't process the packages list, and if I delete the lists
> so that error doesn't occur then dselect won't have any package list for me
> to choose from. Dselect doesn't do much good without a list of available
> packages, but when it has this list it gives some error that I really have
> no idea what it means. I don't know what to do here, since I can't delete
> the list of packages, which makes dselect useless, nor apparently does it
> want to work with the list either. How can I cure whatever it is that ails
> dselect? Thanks for your help, I love you guys that have helped me.
Try to run update again from the dselect menu. If you keep having
problems with the integrity of the /var/lib/dpkg/available file,
please post again.
Cheers,
Joost
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