Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

["David R. Litwin" <presently42@gmail.com>]

Are you able to run apt-get update?

Yes. The problem is with dpkg or debconf.  When using synaptic, it said that debconf was broken.

David R. Litwin wrote:

> Trying to upgrade in synaptic gives
>
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695
> package `dcgui':
>  field name `
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

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