On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:42:49AM +0000, David Selby wrote:
My dpkg database seems to be slightly corrupted with respect to the "imgsizer" package
If I try to install it I get:
[...]
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 55249 package `imgsizer':
missing version
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
[...]
/var/lib/dpkg/ststus contains ....
55244 55245 Package: imgsizer 55246 Status: purge ok installed 55247 Priority: optional 55248 Section: web 55249 [...]
Hm, this looks OK to me.
Perhaps you could try to use one of the backups from /var/lib/dpkg/ or even /var/backup/, ie. do a diff -u between your current status and a backup, note the changes, if any, copy the backup over the current file and redo, that is reinstall / remove, all changes.
Cheers, Flo
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