Re: apt-get upgrade error

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:05:56 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> ever since my upgrade to squeeze I am getting errors like this ( more of
> them):
> 
> warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 514018 package
> 'virtualbox-2.2':
>   error in Version string '2.2.4-47978_Debian_lenny': invalid character
> in revision number

(...)

> virtualbox has been purged from my system, but that file: # ls -l
> /var/lib/dpkg/available
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25094284 Feb 19 08:00 /var/lib/dpkg/available
> 
> is rather large...

Try running "dpkg --clear-avail".

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón