On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:08:45AM -0800, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > I broke my box because when im trying to update my box > with unstable system, I change the 'source.list' and > grab packages from testing source. > > As a result, (I think) half of the package damage, > including 'dpkg'. Even when I try to install something > with 'dpkg -i' I got error message: > > parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near > line 106636 package 'libubit2.11.0c102': > field name 'larea' must be followed by colon
Well, you've certainly broken /var/lib/dpkg/available somehow. Fortunately, this is entirely recoverable: 'dselect update' should fix it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
