It looks to me like you are missing /sw/var/lib/dpkg , for some mysterious reason. I think you will have to do an install from scratch.
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 19:29, June Van Dyke wrote: > Hello all- > > On another computer that I have, I'm using the fink 0.4.0 binary > distribution (see below about 0.4.1). The ncurses terminfo database has > become corrupted (again) and I want to just reinstall ncurses instead of all > of fink, like I did last time. (By 'corrupted' I mean that all terminfo > files have been replaced by zero-length ones, and commands like clear and > dselect don't work.) > > However, when attempting to use apt-get to reinstall the ncurses package, I > got the following error. I thought then that dpkg might also be corrupted, > so I tried to reinstall it, and got the same error: > > > [localhost:~] nwatzman% sudo apt-get install --reinstall ncurses > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not > > upgraded. > > Need to get 1277kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y > > Get:1 http://us.dl.sourceforge.net release/main ncurses 5.2-7 [1277kB] > > Fetched 1277kB in 18s (70.5kB/s) > > dpkg: error processing > > /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses_5.2-7_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack): > > failed to open package info file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' for > > reading: No such file or directory > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses_5.2-7_darwin-powerpc.deb > > E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > [localhost:~] nwatzman% sudo apt-get install --reinstall dpkg > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not > > upgraded. > > Need to get 1190kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > Get:1 http://us.dl.sourceforge.net release/main dpkg 1.9.20-3 [1190kB] > > Fetched 1190kB in 27s (43.2kB/s) > > dpkg: error processing > > /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.9.20-3_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack): > > failed to open package info file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' for > > reading: No such file or directory > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.9.20-3_darwin-powerpc.deb > > E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > [localhost:~] nwatzman% > > Am I best off just deleting /sw and the X11 directories? > > Thanks! > -- > > -- sinclair44 > > P.S. - Before all of this happened (i.e. about a week ago), I used 'sudo > dselect' and did an update-then-install. However, 'fink --version' still > says I'm using 0.4.0. I tried to do an update to 0.4.1 without using > dselect, but only could get the new package descriptions ('sudo apt-get > update'); I couldn't figure out how to do the actual updates (if any). > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net emial is sponsored by: Influence the future > of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community > Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4699841;7576298;k?http://www.sun.com/javavote > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net emial is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4699841;7576301;v? http://www.sun.com/javavote _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
