I'm glad to hear it. On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 14:47, Aleksi Aaltonen wrote: > You saved my day! > > Things are back to normal again. > > aleksi > > > On maanantai, helmi 24, 2003, at 16:15 Europe/Helsinki, Alexander > Hansen wrote: > > > Now I see what the problem is: /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status hae become > > corrupt for some reason. You can verify this by looking at the file. > > It should be a text file with contents something like this: > > > > Package: qt3 > > Status: install ok installed > > Maintainer: Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Source: qt3 > > Version: 3.1.1-5 > > Replaces: qt, qt2, qt3-doc, qt3-bin, qt3-dev > > Provides: qt3-bin > > Depends: qt3-shlibs, qt3-designer, qt3-linguist, qt3-doc > > Suggests: libpng3, libjpeg, freetype2 > > Conflicts: qt, qt2 > > Description: Cross-Platform GUI application framework. > > . > > Web site: http://www.trolltech.com/ > > . > > Maintainer: Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ... > > > > The easiest fix that I can think of is to see if you have a file called > > /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status-old on your system. If so, then see if it is a > > valid file (i.e. its contents are text with format like the above). If > > so, then do the following commands > > > > sudo rm /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status > > sudo cp /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status-old /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status > > > > Then you should be back to normal. You will probably be be missing one > > or more packages that you installed, since this is a backup of your > > status before the last install--just reinstall the package(s). > > > > On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 03:35, Aleksi Aaltonen wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I tried to reinstall apt base package as you suggested, but I got the > >> following error message. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> The following package will be reinstalled: > >> apt > >> The following 11 additional packages will be installed: > >> apt-shlibs base-files bzip2 debianutils dpkg fink gettext gzip > >> libiconv > >> ncurses tar > >> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > >> dpkg -i > >> /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base/base- > >> files_1.6- > >> 1_darwin-powerpc.deb > >> ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2 > >> Failed: can't install package base-files-1.6-1 > >> dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 3: > >> invalid package name (must start with an alphanumeric) > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> > >> On maanantai, helmi 24, 2003, at 00:44 Europe/Helsinki, Alexander > >> Hansen wrote: > >> > >>> I'll put it on the list, so that some more brainpower can be brought > >>> to > >>> bear. > >>> > >>> It looks like the package database has forgotten about your installed > >>> packages--you get thd darwin and macosx packages because they get > >>> read > >>> from your system. > >>> > >>> It looks like you didn't lose any of the files installed by the > >>> packages, > >>> (since fink works), so you don't necessarily need to start from > >>> scratch. > >>> > >>> My best recommendation is to try to reinstall one of the base > >>> packages. > >>> If you have the Section (I believe--I'm not at my Mac right now) > >>> column > >>> enabled in Fink Commander pick one of the ones labled base. > >>> > >>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Aleksi Aaltonen wrote: > >>> > >>>> Unfortunately it is not only FinkCommander realted problem: > >>>> > >>>> ____________________________________________________ > >>>> [ua78d37:~] aake% fink list -i > >>>> Information about 2108 packages read in 4 seconds. > >>>> > >>>> i darwin 6.4-1 [virtual package representing > >>>> the > >>>> kernel] > >>>> i macosx 10.2.4-1 [virtual package representing > >>>> the > >>>> system] > >>>> [ua78d37:~] aake% > >>>> ____________________________________________________ > >>>> > >>>> I have installed at least phpmyadmin, mysql and curl packages (and > >>>> other packages needed by those three) using fink... it seems > >>>> something > >>>> has gone very wrong. > >>>> > >>>> aleksi > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On sunnuntai, helmi 23, 2003, at 18:50 Europe/Helsinki, Alexander > >>>> Hansen wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Does "fink list -i" show the correct installed packages? If so, > >>>>> then > >>>>> this > >>>>> may be a Fink Commander specific issue, and you'll want to check > >>>>> the > >>>>> Fink > >>>>> Commander mailing lists (go to > >>>>> http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net). > >>>>> > >>>>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Aleksi Aaltonen wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Hi, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I recently installed FinkCommander, which is a nice piece of > >>>>>> software. > >>>>>> However, after installing phphmyadmin with FinkCommander, Fink > >>>>>> (cmd-line fink and FinkCommander) seems to have lost the > >>>>>> information > >>>>>> what packages I have installed. FinkCommandet claims that the only > >>>>>> installed software are darwinf and macosx virtual packages. Is > >>>>>> there > >>>>>> any way to rebuild this information or fix the problems some other > >>>>>> way? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> aleksi > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. 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