Eugene Tyurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There's this package smpeg-xmms that is apparently no longer available, >but it's sitting in my dpkg database and screwing things up with its >dependencies. > >I tried deleting the entry from /var/lib/dpkg/status, but it didn't do >me any good. I'm perplexed...
Don't touch /var/lib/dpkg/status manually unless you know what you're doing. It's the only record of the state of a lot of your system. Try 'dpkg --purge smpeg-xmms' instead if you don't want it. Note, though, that that package *is* still in both testing and unstable. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
