Any ideas about how to fix?
laptop:/home/moseley# apt-get update
Get:1 http://bumby unstable/main Packages [3755kB]
[...]
Fetched 5384kB in 1m14s (72.0kB/s)
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
correct the problem.
laptop:/home/moseley# dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1:
EOF after field name `'
I've tried removing /var/lib/dpkg/available and also copying that file
from another machine running Unstable.
(Note that I'm using apt-proxy here [bumby is the machine], but I've
also tried by using debian.org archives directly in sources.list.)
Doing the same operation with Aptitude results in:
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1:
EOF after field name `'
dpkg: --compare-versions takes three arguments: <version> <relation>
<version>
Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use dselect for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg --licence for copyright licence and lack of warranty (GNU GPL)
[*].
Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or
`more' !
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1:
EOF after field name `'
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1:
EOF after field name `'
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
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