I have tried solving this, but I have had no luck. Whenever I run APT-GET UPDATE, it fails. I keep getting the same error; UNABLE TO PARSE PACKAGE FILE /VAR/LIB/DPKG/STATUS (1). I would really appreciate someone telling me how to resolve this. I am running the testing (with some packages from the unstable) branch of Debian 3.0. Everything else works just fine.
Is there a tool that can tell me explicitly what the problem is. Like what line it fails on, or whether the whole file is bad. It has been like this for awhile. I can still install using dpkg, but not apt. In fact, nothing that I try to do with apt seems to work. I tried running APT-CACHE gencaches, but the same error occurs. APT-CACHE stats produces a segmentation fault. If this problem is restricted only to APT, how do I fix it? I have reinstalled APT, but get the same error.
