Let's see what the file looks like. Post (on-list) the results of doing head /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status
-- 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 On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Philip Trauring wrote: > I seem to be having some trouble with Fink. When I try to run > selfupdate, I get the following message (after updating packages): > > >The following package will be installed or updated: > > fink > >The following additional package will be installed: > > base-files > >Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y > >dpkg -i /sw/fink/debs/base-files_1.6-1_darwin-powerpc.deb > >dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1: > > field name `' must be followed by colon > >### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2 > >Failed: can't install package base-files-1.6-1 > > Any ideas what is wrong? > > Thanks, > > Philip > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will > allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your > clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. > Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
