On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 04:53:43PM -0000, Tommy McDaniel wrote: > I absorbed everything that was posted about this, and gained a better > understanding of how everything works, but there is still a problem. I > decided it was time to start downloading some packages and see if I could > get everything to work, but when I went to dselect to see what I wanted to > install so I could get a list of packages to download, it occurred to me > that I still have my original problem, that dselect gives me that "parse > error: duplicate value for user-defined field 'meta-package' in file > /var/cache/apt/available" or whatever it was, I wrote the exact error > message in my posting that started this thread. That was the root of all the > problems. Dselect won't process the packages list, and if I delete the lists > so that error doesn't occur then dselect won't have any package list for me > to choose from. Dselect doesn't do much good without a list of available > packages, but when it has this list it gives some error that I really have > no idea what it means. I don't know what to do here, since I can't delete > the list of packages, which makes dselect useless, nor apparently does it > want to work with the list either. How can I cure whatever it is that ails > dselect? Thanks for your help, I love you guys that have helped me.
Try to run update again from the dselect menu. If you keep having problems with the integrity of the /var/lib/dpkg/available file, please post again. Cheers, Joost
