01101615151300.00500@GDAZ42">I ended up removing the status file and replacing it with a status file I know works. That cleared up the problem. I do not know how that is going to affect the package list in the long run, because I haven't tried updating or installing anything yet. Here is the listing from my sources.list file:Have You editet sources.list in /etc/apt/?
If yes show me the line.
Janusz
On Wednesday 12 September 2001 00:43, Daryl S. Ehrenheim wrote:Hope someone can help me with this one. I do not know what I did to get
this error. It started yesterday. This happens everytime I apt-get update.
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Malformed Status line, no 3rd word
E: Error occured while processing expect (UsePackage1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
I even tried dselect update, and console-apt errors out right at the
beginning.
Thanks for any help..
#for easy ftp setup, uncomment the following four lines:
#deb cdrom:[Storm Firewall]/debian/ potato contrib main non-free
#deb cdrom:[Storm Firewall]/storm/ hail commercial contrib main non-free
deb http://archive.progeny.com/progeny updates/newton/
deb http://archive.progeny.com/progeny newton main contrib non-free
#deb http://archive.progeny.com/debian woody main contrib non-free
#deb http://archive.progeny.com/debian testing main contrib non-free
#deb http://archive.progeny.com/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
#deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main
#deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian testing main
#deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian unstable main
#deb http://www.rcpt.to/ pending main
#deb-src http://www.rcpt.to/ pending main
#deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde potato main crypto
#deb http://gluck.debian.org/~andreas/debian wine main
Hopefully this will help me figure out why it errored out to begin with.
P.S. To all the people who are involved in this list, I am so grateful for all the help that everyone has given. To everyone at Progeny: Keep up the good work. We should all help support them by registering their software. (Me included.)
-- Daryl S. Ehrenheim Systems Administrator Pickering Incorporated
