Re: grep-dctrl

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:30:14AM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> I installed mysql-server on my server, and now I want to install lynx
> and/or ntpclient.  This gives an error:
> 
> kain:/var/log/apache# apt-get install lynx
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   lynx
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 1445kB of archives. After unpacking 3584kB will be used.
> Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main lynx 2.8.4.1b-3.2
> [1445kB]
> Fetched 1445kB in 2s (709kB/s)
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 112550
> package `grep-dctrl':
>  error in Version string `': version string has embedded spaces

Your available file is corrupt. Refresh it with 'dselect update'.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]