dpkg: parse error
I've encountered the following problem whilst trying to install the kernel
source from a cd:
bosnia:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.19
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bzip2 libbz2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bzip2 kernel-source-2.2.19 libbz2
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/15.8MB of archives. After unpacking 16.0MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r6 _Potato_
- Official i386 Binary-1 (20020405)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 12078 package
`cln-dev':
too many values in file details field `MD5sum' (compared to others)
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
The line in question, and surrounding lines, are reproduced below:
(the named line has "[<------------------ this line!!!]" to the right of it)
Depends: libesd-alsa0 (= 0.2.17-7), libaudiofile-dev, esound-common
Conflicts: libesd0-dev
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/devel/libesd-alsa0-dev_0.2.17-7.deb
Size: 36794
MD5sum: 858ddcb01d12507d53bd368ab377c09a
Description: Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - Development files (libc6)
This program is designed to mix together several digitized
audio streams for playback by a single device.
intelligence. (From the back cover of the book "The Icon Programming
Language," by Griswold and Griswold.)
.
This package contains the Icon compiler. It generates programs that
generally run faster than those of the icont/iconx Icon interpreter. On the
other hand, the Icon compiler takes much longer to compile programs and is
more memory-hungry than the iconx/icont pair. As such, the compiler is
probably only useful to speed up the execution of large Icon programs once
mySQL can be used via www-mysql.
Package: www-mysql
Priority: extra
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 3720
Maintainer: Richard Kreckel <kreckel@ginac.de>
Architecture: i386
Source: cln
Version: 1.0.3-2
Depends: g++ (>= 2.95.2), cln (>= 1.0.3), libc6-dev
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/devel/cln-dev_1.0.3-2.deb
Size: 774448
MD5sum: 0c803838871049e0d4140959d01d5c2
/etc/fdprm 4803b1f8b745c36f4b1eb4b233322ea0
[<------------------ this line!!!]
Description: Miscellaneous system utilities.
A mixed bag of system utilities: arch chkdupexe cfdisk cytune dmesg
fdisk fsck.minix getty getopt hwclock ipcrm ipcs kbdrate mcookie
mkfs mkfs.minix mkswap more namei rdev setterm setsid tunelp whereis.
Package: python-pmw
Status: purge ok not-installed
Priority: optional
Section: interpreters
Anyone got any ideas how to fix this? Is there a program that can fix problems
in this file?
thanks
alex
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