The section of my status file reads:

Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libcairo2 (>= 1.0.2-2),
libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.60), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.60), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0),
libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.9.3), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0),
liblaunchpad-integration0 (>= 0.0patch26), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.12.0),
libperl5.8 (>= 5.8.7), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8a-1),
libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxi6,
libxinerama1, ,ibxrandr2, libxrender1, python2.4 (>= 2.3.90), tcl8.4 (>=
8.4.5), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), xchat-common (= 2.6.1-0ubuntu2)

I can't see what the problem is - do I need to check the status of all those
packages?

On 12/17/06, David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Dec 17, 2006 at 16:35, David Andrew praised the llamas by saying:
> A couple of months ago one of my computers froze when I was up-dating
some
> packages - I now get the folowing error messaes when i try to use APT -
or
> synaptic.
>
> E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
> E: Error occurred while processing xchat (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Basically your /var/lib/dpkg/status file is corrupt. The best way to fix
it is to make a copy of the file as a backup and then open the original
in a text editor and search for xchat and then fix what ever the problem
is.

There is a chance that you would have lost some information about
whether you have some packages installed. You should be able to fix this
by either installing the application again or by hacking the status file
again to show it installed.

>
> Is there any easy soilution to this?
>
> I am using Edubuntu 6.06.
>
>



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