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Re: dpkg: parse error



On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:32:51PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote:
> 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)

Looks like a corrupted available file. Fortunately this file is usually
just constructed from the data in Packages files on CD-ROMs or on the
net, so a simple 'dselect update' should be enough to fix it.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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