Things are back to normal again.
aleksi
On maanantai, helmi 24, 2003, at 16:15 Europe/Helsinki, Alexander Hansen wrote:
Now I see what the problem is: /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status hae become corrupt for some reason. You can verify this by looking at the file. It should be a text file with contents something like this:
Package: qt3 Status: install ok installed Maintainer: Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: qt3 Version: 3.1.1-5 Replaces: qt, qt2, qt3-doc, qt3-bin, qt3-dev Provides: qt3-bin Depends: qt3-shlibs, qt3-designer, qt3-linguist, qt3-doc Suggests: libpng3, libjpeg, freetype2 Conflicts: qt, qt2 Description: Cross-Platform GUI application framework. . Web site: http://www.trolltech.com/ . Maintainer: Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ...
The easiest fix that I can think of is to see if you have a file called /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status-old on your system. If so, then see if it is a valid file (i.e. its contents are text with format like the above). If so, then do the following commands
sudo rm /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status sudo cp /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status-old /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status
Then you should be back to normal. You will probably be be missing one or more packages that you installed, since this is a backup of your status before the last install--just reinstall the package(s).
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 03:35, Aleksi Aaltonen wrote:Hello,
I tried to reinstall apt base package as you suggested, but I got the following error message.
_______________________________________________
The following package will be reinstalled:
apt
The following 11 additional packages will be installed:
apt-shlibs base-files bzip2 debianutils dpkg fink gettext gzip libiconv
ncurses tar
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
dpkg -i
/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base/base- files_1.6-
1_darwin-powerpc.deb
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2
Failed: can't install package base-files-1.6-1
dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 3:
invalid package name (must start with an alphanumeric)
_______________________________________________
On maanantai, helmi 24, 2003, at 00:44 Europe/Helsinki, Alexander Hansen wrote:
I'll put it on the list, so that some more brainpower can be brought to
bear.
It looks like the package database has forgotten about your installed
packages--you get thd darwin and macosx packages because they get read
from your system.
It looks like you didn't lose any of the files installed by the packages, (since fink works), so you don't necessarily need to start from scratch.
My best recommendation is to try to reinstall one of the base packages.
If you have the Section (I believe--I'm not at my Mac right now) column
enabled in Fink Commander pick one of the ones labled base.
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Aleksi Aaltonen wrote:
Unfortunately it is not only FinkCommander realted problem:
____________________________________________________ [ua78d37:~] aake% fink list -i Information about 2108 packages read in 4 seconds.
i darwin 6.4-1 [virtual package representing the
kernel]
i macosx 10.2.4-1 [virtual package representing the
system]
[ua78d37:~] aake%
____________________________________________________
I have installed at least phpmyadmin, mysql and curl packages (and
other packages needed by those three) using fink... it seems something
has gone very wrong.
aleksi
On sunnuntai, helmi 23, 2003, at 18:50 Europe/Helsinki, Alexander Hansen wrote:
Does "fink list -i" show the correct installed packages? If so, then
this
may be a Fink Commander specific issue, and you'll want to check the
Fink
Commander mailing lists (go to http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net).
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Aleksi Aaltonen wrote:
Hi,
I recently installed FinkCommander, which is a nice piece of
software.
However, after installing phphmyadmin with FinkCommander, Fink
(cmd-line fink and FinkCommander) seems to have lost the information
what packages I have installed. FinkCommandet claims that the only
installed software are darwinf and macosx virtual packages. Is there
any way to rebuild this information or fix the problems some other
way?
aleksi
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