On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:14:54AM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote: > >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colin> I'm getting three or four reports a day about errors like > Colin> this: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' > Colin> near line 88004 package doc-linux-html': empty file details > Colin> field `MD5sum' E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error > Colin> code (2) > > I was bit by this. my 'solution' was to delete the offending MD5Sum > line from /var/lib/dpkg/availble. this seemed to work OK for me, but > YMMV.
Yes, that will work too, or 'dselect update' as I said later in the mail which is probably simpler. Like I said, we don't need any more suggestions of workarounds. :) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
