Re: Apt/dpkg...screwed up bad!

2000-02-16 Thread David J. Kanter
This seemed to do the trick: dpkg --clear-avail apt-get update On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 06:39:24PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > I must have really messed something up. Running either dselect or apt-get > gives me this: > > E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) > E: The packa

Apt/dpkg...screwed up bad!

2000-02-16 Thread David J. Kanter
I must have really messed something up. Running either dselect or apt-get gives me this: E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. What I did to get here was get the latest afterstep rpm, convert it to a deb with al