On 27 January 2011 09:37, Wolodja Wentland wolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:13 +, Kelly Harding wrote:
hi
have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box:
dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line
[...]
(I must of been sleep deprived when I replied last month as I
inadvertantly replied directly to godo rather than the list as well)
/var/lib/available seems to be empty I noticed.
Removing virtualbox-2.1 from
/var/lib/dpkg/status doesn't make a difference. It seems it is a bug in
virtualbox-2.1,
solved this now. So simple in the end, simply removing the _'s from
the version field in /var/lib/dpkg/status fixed it.
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On 01/27/2011 08:13 AM, Kelly Harding wrote:
hi
have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box:
dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line
29666 package 'virtualbox-2.1':
error in Version string `2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:13 +, Kelly Harding wrote:
hi
have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box:
dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line
[...]
Results in inability to upgrade any packages on the system.
Anyone come
hi
have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box:
dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line
29666 package 'virtualbox-2.1':
error in Version string `2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character
in revision number
exim4-config.postinst:
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