Hi, I sent an email to the list on Saturday, but I have been unable to discover what is wrong with apt-get on my machine. Dselect & dpkg work fine, but apt-get fails, saying :
Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. (It doesn't matter what I try to do - update, install, remove, etc... I always get this error message). I have taken a look at the file in question, but I cannot see anything wrong with it. However, it is 1.7 meg in size :-) and I really don't think searching it line by line is going to be a good solution. Is there any way that I can get apt-get to be more verbose about exactly where the parsing error is occurring and what it is? I have looked for a newer version of apt-get than the one I have, but I don't think one has come out yet. Where can I get an older version from, to try that? I am running testing/unstable and apt-get appears to be the same version in both, and trying to go back to stable would be more hassle than it's worth! Are there any other hints of things to try to get apt working again, without doing a full reinstall which would be total overkill :-) -- Jason Wood Persistence is a virtue
