Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system
I just tried what was suggested to me, and then looked around the system
further in hopes of finding something that might help, but had no luck. When
I tried dpkg --update-avail /dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages,
everything went fine, apparently, with the only message I received being
"Information about 1 package(s) was updated". I thought it might be a good
time to give dselect a try, so I did, but when I tried to Update I got the
usual "dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/cache/apt/available' near line 600
package 'navigator': duplicate value for user-defined field 'meta-package'
update available list script returned error exit status 2." error. So I
tried the dpkg --update-avail command with the contrib and non-free Package
files, and got errors there. When I tried contrib, it was "dpkg: parse
error, in file '/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/Packages' near line 1415
package 'navigator': duplicate value for user-defined field 'meta-package'"
When I tried non-free, it was "dpkg: parse error, in file
'/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/Packages' near line 4593 package
'netscape-smotif-472-libc5': duplicate value for user-defined field
'meta-package'". Of course, dselect didn't get past the Update step after
doing these last two dpkg --update-avail commands either. I don't know what
dpkg's problem with either meta-package fields or Netscape is, but these are
just copies of the exact same Package files one finds on the Debian mirrors.
I am at quite a loss here as to what to do. If anyone knows why my dpkg
seems to have an attitude, please tell me. I have tried this process on two
computers and I get the exact same problem on both. This is a strange little
problem indeed. I'll stick with this though until it seems that there is
nothing we can do to make it work.
Tommy McDaniel
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