This happens occasionally--I've never heard a good explanation for it, though.
You may be able to fix this if /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status-old is available, and not also damaged: sudo cp /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status-old /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 11:42, Pascal Bourguignon wrote: > Now it seems the /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status is damaged. How do I recover > it? > > dpkg -i > /sw/fink/dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/openssl097- > dev_0.9.7b-1_darwin-powerpc.deb > dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1807 > package `openssl097-dev': > missing version > ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2 > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
