Re: how to reconfigure/reinstall 'dpkg'?
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:08:45AM -0800, Phillipus Gunawan wrote:
> I broke my box because when im trying to update my box
> with unstable system, I change the 'source.list' and
> grab packages from testing source.
>
> As a result, (I think) half of the package damage,
> including 'dpkg'. Even when I try to install something
> with 'dpkg -i' I got error message:
>
> parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near
> line 106636 package 'libubit2.11.0c102':
> field name 'larea' must be followed by colon
Well, you've certainly broken /var/lib/dpkg/available somehow.
Fortunately, this is entirely recoverable: 'dselect update' should fix
it.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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