On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 13:51:24 -0700, "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I'm getting the following error when attempting to use dpkg: > > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 65755 > package `doc-linux-html': > empty file details field `MD5sum' > > Is anyone seeing similar? Bug against dpkg or doc-linux-html? > > And...is there a workaround? $ md5sum /var/cache/apt/doc-linux-html*.deb Edit /var/lib/dpkg/available. Alternatively, it was reported that deleting the MD5sum field for the package works as well. There's a bug filed, and was a lame message/excuse about how the bug was really caused by a buffer overflow in dpkg (geez, maybe fix that?). Something to do with how doc-linux-html is sooooo big compared to other packages... (I dunno...). -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
