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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