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Re: HELP, PLEASE!! Apt-Get update Errors



On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:23:09PM -0800, Xavian-Anderson Macpherson wrote:
> I think I read somewhere that there is a problem with one of the libraries
> causing APT-GET UPDATE to fial.  I keep getting the same error; UNABLE TO
> PARSE PACKAGE FILE  /VAR/LIB/DPKG/STATUS (1).  I would really appreciate
> someone telling me how to resolve this.  I am running the testing (with some
> packages from the unstable) branch of Debian 3.0.  Everything else works just
> fine.

mv /var/lib/dpkg/status to_another_name
cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status

If that does not correct the problem, you can find previous backups of
/var/lib/dpkg/status in /var/backups.

-- 
Jerome

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