Re: dpkg problem
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:06:14PM +0200, christian.schoenebeck@epost.de wrote:
> I need some help: I recently tried to upgrade some packages, but
> after an error during a package replacement I wasn't able to
> install anything (with 'apt-get install').
If you'd like to give more details about that, we can probably help.
> Now everytime I try to install something I get this error message:
>
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line
> 64831 package `libglib1.1.8-dbg': error in Version string `256:':
> nothing after colon in version number
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>
> What can I do to fix it?
Run 'dselect update' to fetch new Packages files from the network, and
in the process replace your available file with a good version.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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