RE: lost in kde packages

["Bob Koss" <koss@objectmentor.com>]

> >  empty file details field `MD5sum'
>
> apt/dpkg bug, not sure which yet, and I've no idea why doc-linux-html
> seems to be its favourite target today. Edit /var/lib/dpkg/available
> around the line number it quotes (it should be in a paragraph starting
> with "Package: doc-linux-html"), and remove the "MD5sum:" line.
>


Thank you. Another list member suggested dpkg --clear-avail.  That seemed to
get me moving again. Now I have all packages as up to date as they can be,
and all I'm left with are kde errors :-(    Off to the debian-kde list I
go....