Hi Erik, thank you very much, your suggestion worked perfectly. By the way, I've noted that in the last upgrades of ximian-gnome, several problems arises. I wonder if the ximian people is careful enough, as least with respect to the debian distribution...
Regards, Marcelo On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:36:48AM +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:10:01 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > I am trying to upgrade my system (potato 2.2.r5 + ximian gnome). After > > typing > > > > apt-get update > > > > I get the following error message: > > > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > E: Malformed provides line > > E: Error occured while processing gnumeric (NewVersion1) > > E: Problem with MergeList > > /var/state/apt/lists/red-carpet.ximian.com_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > Happened to me to this morning. It seems that the Ximian people > introduced a version number in brackets after the line: > > Provides: ximian-gnumeric > > in the file you mention under Gnumeric section. > I removed the number and it worked afterwards. Also reported this on the > Ximian-users list. -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
