I responded privately to the original poster, but let me recapitulate the general principle here.
The error message from dpkg was referring to the "files list file" of a package as having problems. This indicates that something bad has happened to the directory where dpkg stores its status information about the current installation. Maybe somebody knows a utility to clean up, when something like this happens? I don't know of one, though, so I would try to fix things by hand. The "files list file of package 'foo'" refers to /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/foo.list If any one of these files has an empty entry, or is missing a newline, or something like that, then dpkg will not be able to do anything. Editing or removing that file directly is certainly dangerous, but it might allow dpkg to proceed and then you would be able to reinstall the package. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
