On Mar 19, Nathan O. Siemers wrote > There's no big syntax error that I can see (with my uneducated eyes) > in that area of "available",
The section before it most likely has an entry with a ':' in the version numbering. This is a use of the new "epoch" feature in dpkg (to deal with packages whose version numbering scheme has changed), which causes problems with older dpkgs. > and now dpkg won't run because of the problem. How do I work around this? > Delete available for now? Thanks for any help! I recently did an 1.1->1.2 upgrade. When I encountered this problem, I removed the offending entries in available, installed the new dpkg, and asked dselect to update the list of available packages again. HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan