Re: Bug#87390: apt-get: "E: I wasn't able to locate file for the guile1.3 package..."

[Malcolm Parsons <malcolm@bits.bris.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

: You status file is corrupted. It contains an entry like this:
: 
: I'm curious how you managed to do this to yourself?

As I guessed earlier, this corruption is occuring when dpkg fails to install
a package because it would overwrite files in another package.
quicktime4linux-utils will not install at the same time as recover, so
you should be able to reproduce this yourself.

Package: quicktime4linux-utils
Status: hold ok not-installed
Priority: extra
Section: utils
Version: 1.3-0.1

-- 
Malcolm Parsons 
finger malcolm@bits.bris.ac.uk for info. (updated 11/2/2000)