John Harrold wrote:
This is completely my fault. I was installing octave on my powerbook over the network when I had to leave. I closed my notebook, which suspended and severed the ssh connection over which I was installing octave. When I arrived at home, I tried to restart the process: 'fink install octave'. Thats when I got the following:
<snip>
Information about 4547 packages read in 2 seconds.
The following package will be installed or updated:
octave
The following 6 additional packages will be installed:
fftw3 fftw3-shlibs gnuplot hdf5 hdf5-bin hdf5-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] dpkg-deb -b /sw/src/root-fink-buildlock-fftw3-3.0-11 /sw/src
dpkg-deb: building package `fink-buildlock-fftw3-3.0-11' in `/sw/src/fink-buildlock-fftw3-3.0-11_2005.05.17-18.43.54_darwin-powerpc.deb'.
Setting build lock...
dpkg -i /sw/src/fink-buildlock-fftw3-3.0-11_2005.05.17-18.43.54_darwin-powerpc.deb
dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1770 package `fink-buildlock-gnuplot-4.0.0-2':
missing version
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2
Can't set build lock for fftw3 (3.0-11)
If any of the above dpkg error messages mention conflicting packages --
for example, telling you that fink-buildlock-fftw3-3.0-11
conflicts with something else -- fink has probably gotten confused by trying to build many packages at once. Try building just this current package
fftw3 (i.e, "fink build fftw3"). When that has completed successfully, you could retry whatever you did that led to the present error.
Regardless of the cause of the lock failure, don't worry: you have not wasted compiling time! Packages that had been completely built before this error occurred will not have to be recompiled. Failed: buildlock failure </snip>
I tried to build the fftw3 which returns the same error. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
In fact, there is a FAQ entry about just this very problem:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php?phpLang=en#dpkg-parse-error
--AH
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