on Mon, Sep 23, 2002, BeerBong (alexei@samara.net) wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I use Debian Woody.
> I updated packages list today via 'Upade' dselect and select to
> install 'perlmagick'.
> When I tried to Install selected packages I got
>
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
>
> How to solve the problem ?
Archive the broken file elsewhere.
First try copying over /var/lib/dpkg/status-old in its place.
You should have up to six backup copies in /var/backups as
'dpkg.status.[0-6]', higher numbers gzipped.
Peace.
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