On Sun 16 Oct 2011 at 11:50:44 +0200, David Baron wrote: > This is a repeat posting. This is probably a repeat response. :) [Snip complaints from dpkg] > How can I get rid of these entries (without attempting to hand-edit 100,000 > lines of text!)? 'dpkg --clear-avail' followed by 'apt-get update'. Back up /var/lib/dpkg/available first.