On 15-Feb-97 Philippe Troin wrote: >>On Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:48:18 EST Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> I just got a new CD from Iconnect. I ran "Update availble" and now I have a >> problem. >> >> An simple atemp to do dpkg -i "package_name" returns the folowing erro: >> >> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 13771 >> package `zlib1': >> empty value for version >> >> What can I do to rebuild this file correctly ? > >Just choose [U]pdate in the dselect menu. It will rebuild an available file. > I usually got this error when doing an update (or at least right after updating). It seems to be the consensus on debian-user to do something like a 'dpkg --clear-avail' and then upgrade dpkg to the one currently in stable.
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