Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.1.13 Severity: normal My /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses-bin.list somehow became corrupted recently, which has prevented me from installing packages (including reinstalling ncurses-bin to fix the problem). In the end I had to ftp the package, and 'tar ztf data.tar.gz > ncurses-bin.list', then edit that by hand to make it correct, and place it in /var/lib/dpkg/info.
Dpkg should be able to recover somehow, if the package is still available in the cache. Some kind of --force-reinstall which overwrites the currently installed package, except dpkg is failing before it gets to the stage where that would work. Or maybe an option to regenerate corrupted .list files from the cached packages - dpkg -C didn't pick up any problems when I ran it, which seems weird to be, if the install part of dpkg can't do anything. -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux neuromancer 2.2.13pre15 #1 Fri Oct 8 17:51:40 NZDT 1999 i686 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.1.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone ii libncurses4 4.2-3.4 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-0pre2 The GNU stdc++ library
