[Fink-users] daunted by ghostscript6

[Kow K]

Dear Fink users,

I need you help. I'm really stuck. I'm on 0.5.1.cvs, 0.11.2, running on 10.2.3

THE PROBLEM:

All update processes are being blocked a puzzling "missing version" error related to ghostscript6. For example, when I try to update kdebase3, among others, it fails due to dpkg "parse error", as the following:

$ fink update kdebase3
sudo /sw/bin/fink update kdebase3
Information about 2162 packages read in 3 seconds.

The following package will be installed or updated:
kdebase3
The following 3 additional packages will be installed:
kdebase3-shlibs kdelibs3 kdelibs3-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/kde/kdelibs3- shlibs_3.1-13_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/kde/kdelibs3_3.1- 13_darwin-powerpc.deb
dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 6178 package `ghostscript6':
missing version
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2
Failed: can't batch-install packages: /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/kde/kdelibs3- shlibs_3.1-13_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/kde/kdelibs3_3.1- 13_darwin-powerpc.deb

The offending lines in are:

Package: ghostscript6
Status: purge ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: text

This problems happens every time I try update something. I tried "fink scanpackages", "fink index", to no avail.

FYI, "fink list ghost" gives the following, which indicates that ghostscript6 isn't installed (or incomplete):

$ fink list ghost
Information about 2162 packages read in 4 seconds.

ghostscript 8.00-2 Interpreter for PostScript and PDF
i ghostscript-fon 6.0-3 Standard fonts for Ghostscript
ghostscript-nox 8.00-2 Interpreter for PostScript and PDF
ghostscript6 6.01-3 Interpreter for PostScript and PDF, v6.01...
ghostscript6-no 6.01-4 Intrp. for PostScript/PDF, v6.01 (for teT...
kghostview 3.1-12 KDE - postscript viewer
system-ghostscr 7.05-3 Placeholder package for manually installe...
system-ghostscr 6.01-1 Placeholder package for manually installe...
x-ghostscript-f 20020206-3 Allows ghostscript fonts to be used withi...

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Kow




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