On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:01:20AM +0300, Jaana Heino wrote: > Trying to run apt-get dist-upgrade or apt-get install <foo> results in the > following error message each time: > > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 46772 package > `bsh': `Depends' field, invalid package name `j?': character `?' not allowed > - only letters, digits and -+._ allowed > > (The character there looks like an euro sign on my screen.)
Have you checked /var/lib/dpkg/available to see whether it really does contain that character sequence? Perhaps it is corrupted. -- - mdz
