My dpkg database seems to be slightly corrupted with respect to the "imgsizer" package
If I try to install it I get:
debian:/home/web#
debian:/home/web# apt-get install imgsizer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
imgsizer
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/9474B of archives. After unpacking 73.7kB will be used.
Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020720)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 55249 package `imgsizer':
missing version
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
debian:/home/web#
If I try to purge it I get:
debian:/home/web# dpkg -P imgsizer
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 55249 package `imgsizer':
missing version
debian:/home/web#
/var/lib/dpkg/ststus contains ....
55240 Package: libnewt-utf8-pic 55241 Status: purge ok not-installed 55242 Priority: extra 55243 Section: devel 55244 55245 Package: imgsizer 55246 Status: purge ok installed 55247 Priority: optional 55248 Section: web 55249 55250 Package: im 55251 Status: purge ok not-installed 55252 Priority: optional 55253 Section: mail 55254
The story of how this came about is a long one ... What to I need to do to purge "imgsizer" properly so I can re-install it ?
Dave
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