Do the following.
1) Rename ('sudo mv') /sw/var/lib/dpkg/available to something else.
2) Run dselect as root ('sudo dselect) and select 1) [U]pdate --this will
download a new file for you.
3) If you get an error again, send a message to this list--with the
error messages included.
By the way: what editor did you use when you edited the file the first
time?
--
Alexander K. Hansen
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
Levitated Dipole Experiment
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219
Cambridge, MA 02139-4213
Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Matthias Djurkovic wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I am very new to Mac OS (Apple over all) and obviously to FINK, too! I have
> a PowerBook for 2 Weeks now and I will never touch a Windoze machine anymore
> at home .... :-)
>
> I've downloaded FINK and tried to install the GIMP over FINK (I have XFree86
> 4.2 and OroborOSX 0.75 installed manually). After I have selected the
> necessary packages FINK loaded the packages. Some packages did compile but
> at some point I got a parse error in the file /sw/var/lib/dpkg/available
> (near line 1610) the field name 'full' needs a colon (or so...).
>
> I modified the the file, and put a '_' in front of the full (it seemed to be
> a package description). But after that, nearly the same error occured on
> another line.
>
> I thought, I could resolve this problem by updating FINK to the most recent
> version and did a
>
> Root# fink selfupdate
>
> But after that, I receive the rather same error message:
>
> dpkg -i
> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base/fink_0.9.11-1_darwin-p
> owerpc.deb
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1007
> package `ant':
> field name `ach' must be followed by colon
> ### dpkg failed, exit code 2
> Failed: can't install package fink-0.9.11-1
>
>
> My question: how can I update the /sw/var/lib/dpkg/available file. I have
> the feeling, I broke it myself (since there are some strange line breaks).
>
> Sorry for this long posting and
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers,
> Matthias
>
>
>
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