Worked like a charm! Thanks! On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/28/12 8:19 AM, Cory Mikida wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I'm very new to Fink and when I installed it I was delighted with its >> capabilities. I was able to install a few programs (namely vim and >> emacs) before I starting receiving the following error message >> whenever I tried to do anything with Fink: >> >> WARNING: can't read dpkg status file "sw/var/lib/dpkg/status". >> >> This warning message is the first thing that happens whenever I give >> Fink any command, be it to install something or list available >> packages or even selfupdate. Furthermore, after this message comes up >> a few times and the program continues what it's doing, it eventually >> prints the following output: >> >> Failed: can't install package base-files-1.9.12-1 >> >> This may just be one example, because it's copied output from when I >> tried to selfupdate, but you always get the same error, the package >> name may just change, I'm not sure. >> >> Either way I did some digging in my Finder and found that the "status" >> file that they're looking for doesn't exist and has been replaced with >> a file called "status-old." I've tried to change the name back to >> just status but no matter what I do with my sharing and permission >> options my computer won't let me change the name. I'm not sure what I >> can do to fix this problem so that I can actually use Fink, but if >> anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them. Thanks! >> >> > > Try: > > sudo cp /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status-old /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status > > > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ > >
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