Hello, When I run dselect and select update, apt runs through my sources.list updating its Contents, and then I get the following error:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/cache/apt/available' near line 7311 package `blt': `Replaces' field, reference to `blt-dev': error in version: version string has embedded spaces In the past, I have seen a similar error when doing apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. I solved it by editing /var/cache/apt/available and deleting the embedded spaces. These embedded spaces aren't really embedded spaces; they are spaces between the end of the version string and the closing paren. However, when using dselect, this file seems to be regenerated with the offending spaces. Is this, perhaps, a bug in dpkg? Has anyone seen this problem? dpkg version = 1.9.8 perl version = 5.6.1 Debian version = unstable Thanks, Anthony
