This one time, at band camp, Ken Foskey wrote:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 81071
package `tomcat':
`Depends' field, reference to `libservlet2.2-java': version contains ` '
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
As stated earlier my harddisk
quote who=Jamie Wilkinson
If you were me, you'd delete /var/lib/dpkg/available, and see if an
apt-get update rebuilds it. Of course, being me, you'd know that I have
no idea if this'll work, so you wouldn't recommend this to anyone without
first making sure. ;)
Is this a circuitous way of
quote who=Ken Foskey
Linux:~# apt-get install defoma --reinstall
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and
48 not upgraded.
2 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/52.4kB of
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Ken Foskey
My system died and perl libraries have been corrupted.
/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.pm has too many errors.
Debian, how do I force a reinstall on these libraries?
Well, I'm not Debian, but I think I can answer your question for him/her/it.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote...
: /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.pm has too many errors.
: Dear debian,
:
: But I did do a apt-get install perl --reinstall.Still broken.
Could be that file isnt provided by the package 'perl'.
Try typing...
dpkg -S
My system died and perl libraries have been corrupted.
/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.pm has too many errors.
Debian, how do I force a reinstall on these libraries?
Ta KenF
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quote who=Ken Foskey
My system died and perl libraries have been corrupted.
/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.pm has too many errors.
Debian, how do I force a reinstall on these libraries?
Well, I'm not Debian, but I think I can answer your question for him/her/it.
dpkg -i
