My results:
philip% head /sw/var/lib/dpkg/availble-old head: /sw/var/lib/dpkg/availble-old: No such file or directory philip% head /sw/var/lib/dpkg/availble head: /sw/var/lib/dpkg/availble: No such file or directory philip%
Philip
At 7:34 PM -0500 1/18/03, Alexander Hansen wrote:
Check and see whether /sw/var/lib/dpkg/availble-old is good (It should look similar to your new /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status). If so, then copy it over /sw/var/lib/dpkg/available . -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Philip Trauring wrote:> >> > LAME (LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder) is a research project forThat seems to have worked, but when it goes to update a package (after running update-all as suggested), I get this: >Information about 940 packages read in 0 seconds. > >The following package will be installed or updated: > dict >dpkg -i >/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/dict_1.7.1-1_darwin-powerpc.deb >dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1: > field name `rai' must be followed by colon >### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2 >Failed: can't install package dict-1.7.1-1 I tried updating another package an got a similar response. I tried a third (xpilot) and it seemed to compile okay, but at the end I got: >Writing control file... >mkdir -p /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/games >dpkg-deb -b root-xpilot-4.5.4-1 >/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/games >dpkg-deb: building package `xpilot' in >`/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/games/xpilot_4.5.4-1_darwin-powerpc.deb'. >ln -sf >/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/games/xpilot_4.5.4-1_darwin-powerpc.deb >/sw/fink/debs/ >rm -rf /sw/src/root-xpilot-4.5.4-1 >dpkg -i >/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/games/xpilot_4.5.4-1_darwin-powerpc.deb >dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1: > field name `rai' must be followed by colon >### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2 >Failed: can't install package xpilot-4.5.4-1 From one problem to the next it seems... Philip At 6:57 PM -0500 1/18/03, Alexander Hansen wrote: >OK. You should be able to try > >sudo cp /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status-old /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status > >and then try updating again. > >-- >Alexander K. Hansen >Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University >visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center >Levitated Dipole Experiment >175 Albany Street, NW17-219 >Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 > >On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Philip Trauring wrote: > >> I got: >> >> >Package: lame-shlibs >> >Status: install ok installed >> >Maintainer: Sylvain Cuaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Source: lame-shlibs >> >Version: 3.92-4 >> >Replaces: lame >> >Description: MP3 encoder and graphical frame analyzer
> >>learning about
> >> > and improving MP3 encoding technoligy. LAME includes an mp3 encoding
>> > library, simple front end application, a much-improved psycho-acoustic
>>
>> Philip
>>
>> At 3:30 PM -0500 1/17/03, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> >Hmm. it looks like the file got corrupted somehow. It should have showed
>> >something like this (from my system):
>> >...
>> >[ldx3:var/lib/dpkg] hansen% head status
>> >Package: qt3
>> >Status: install ok installed
>> >Maintainer: Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Source: qt3
>> >Version: 3.1.1-3
>> >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
>> >...
>> >Try "head /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status-old"
> >> >-->> >Alexander K. Hansen
>> >Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
>> >visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
>> >Levitated Dipole Experiment
>> >175 Albany Street, NW17-219
>> >Cambridge, MA 02139-4213
>> >
>> >On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Philip Trauring wrote:
>> >
>> >> All I got was:
>> >>
>> >> emboi^tab
>> >>
>> >> Philip
>> >>
>> >> At 1:06 PM -0500 1/17/03, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> >> >Let's see what the file looks like. Post (on-list) the
>>results of doing
> > > > >
> > > > >head /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status
> > > > >
> > > > >--
> > > > >Alexander K. Hansen
> > > >
> >
> >
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