Thanks, your suggestion basically did the trick, although I did end up having to remove 3 lines from /var/lib/dpkg/available to get it to work. It appears as though the file was corrupted.
Regarding your question about disk space, I have plenty, so it's unlikely that was the cause of the corruption. In case it would help someone else, here's the beginning of the file and what I removed to get it to work. Package: libkrb53 Status: install ok unpacked Priority: standard Section: libs Installed-Size: 988 Maintainer: Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: krb5 Version: 1.4.4-5 Config-Version: 1.4.4-4 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libcomerr2 (>= 1.33-3) Suggests: krb5-doc, krb5-user Conflicts: openafs-krb5 (<< 1.3-10), ssh-krb5 (<< 3.8.1p1-10), libauthen-krb5-perl (<< 1.4-5), libapache-mod-auth-kerb (<= 4.996-5.0-rc6-2), libapache2-mod-auth-kerb (<= 4.996-5.0-rc6-2) Description: MIT Kerberos runtime libraries Kerberos is a system for authenticating users and services on a network. Kerberos is a trusted third-party service. That means that there is a third party (the kerberos server) that is trusted by all the entities on the network (users and services, usually called "principals"). . This is the MIT reference implementation of Kerberos5. . This package contains the runtime libraries used by applications and Kerberos clients. [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ (etc.) I ended up having to remove these lines: Status: install ok unpacked Config-Version: 1.4.4-4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ (etc.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
