'apt-get upgrade' error this morning
I've upgraded lots of packages to testing this morning (the libc6/php4
problem evidently got fixed) and finally got the following error.
How do I fix whatever went wrong?
(Reading database ... 170160 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ncurses-bin 5.2.20020112a-8 (using .../ncurses-bin_5.3.20021109-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ncurses-bin ...
Setting up ncurses-bin (5.3.20021109-2) ...
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 49824:
missing package name
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
tc:/#
tc:/# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
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