Re: dpkg package "stuck"

[Florian Ernst <florian@uni-hd.de>]

Hello David!

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:42:49AM +0000, David Selby wrote:
> My dpkg database seems to be slightly corrupted with respect to the 
> "imgsizer" package
>
> If I try to install it I get:
> [...]
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 55249 
> package `imgsizer':
> missing version
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> [...]
> /var/lib/dpkg/ststus contains ....
>
>  55244
>  55245 Package: imgsizer
>  55246 Status: purge ok installed
>  55247 Priority: optional
>  55248 Section: web
>  55249
> [...]

Hm, this looks OK to me.

Perhaps you could try to use one of the backups from /var/lib/dpkg/ or
even /var/backup/, ie. do a diff -u between your current status and a
backup, note the changes, if any, copy the backup over the current
file and redo, that is reinstall / remove, all changes.

Cheers,
Flo

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