On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 14:17 Europe/Brussels, David R. Morrison wrote:
Anybody have advice for this user, how to fix the status file?
dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1008 package `kcalc': field name `¡' must be followed by colon ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2 Failed: can't batch-install packages:
cd /sw/var/lib/dpkg
cp -p status status-svd
cp -p status-old status
diff -Naur status status-svd
(note in the output for what packages there is a difference _ should be at least kcalc, might be more)
For each of those packages where there was a diff, run at least once each of
fink reinstall
and
fink remove
(in order depending on the final status you want for that package)
(sometimes, you might have to use dpkg --force- here _ but anyway try first the fink commands).
JF Mertens
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