Re: dpkg: parse error

[Alex Hunsley <lard@tardis.ed.ac.uk>]

Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> 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,

thanks, that works a treat! :)

alex


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