Package: dselect Hye, I have some strange problems with /var/lib/dpkg/available file, because when i do a "dselect install" it's find an error in this file. But the strange thing is that the error of the line in this file change all the time, and when i open this file at the specified line the error has vanished: - the first try:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 194256 package `python2.1-oss': MSDOS EOF (^Z) in field name `Installed-Size' - the second try: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 145694: field name `0a' must be followed by colon - the third try: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 193828 package `bioperl': `Recommends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected ... Could it be an hardwar problem? do you have a solution? PS: I have try a cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available so but it's the same problem thank for your answer.
