On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:05:56 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > ever since my upgrade to squeeze I am getting errors like this ( more of > them): > > warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 514018 package > 'virtualbox-2.2': > error in Version string '2.2.4-47978_Debian_lenny': invalid character > in revision number
(...) > virtualbox has been purged from my system, but that file: # ls -l > /var/lib/dpkg/available > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25094284 Feb 19 08:00 /var/lib/dpkg/available > > is rather large... Try running "dpkg --clear-avail". Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
