On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:38:09PM -0400, Anand Atreya wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install Debian 3.0r1 on a 900 MHz AMD Athlon with Asus A7V > motherboard. However, I'm having two problems. > First, when I'm in the middle of the install process, and the installer is adding > packages to the system, I get the following error regardless of how many times i try > or if I try to run apt-get manually: > > dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 16078 > package '(package name here)': > 'Depends' field, reference to 'libc6': version contains ' ' > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) > > This error occurs with many different packages. (One of the packages that caused > this problem was a Python package.) Rebooting does not help. Anyone have any idea > what is causing this? >
Sounds like you may have disk corruption, or at least a corrupted available file. Why not take a look at the available file with emacs, at the line numbers mentioned, to see if something other than libc6 (>= x.x.x-x) is there. I grepped mine and found no cases where version was ' '. If you move your available file and then apt-get update, you'll get a fresh one. Then maybe you could diff (although it may be a newer version as well). -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
