> > empty file details field `MD5sum' > > apt/dpkg bug, not sure which yet, and I've no idea why doc-linux-html > seems to be its favourite target today. Edit /var/lib/dpkg/available > around the line number it quotes (it should be in a paragraph starting > with "Package: doc-linux-html"), and remove the "MD5sum:" line. >
Thank you. Another list member suggested dpkg --clear-avail. That seemed to get me moving again. Now I have all packages as up to date as they can be, and all I'm left with are kde errors :-( Off to the debian-kde list I go....
