Alexander Hansen wrote: > On Wednesday 18 June 2008 15:56:30 Martin Costabel wrote: >> Glen Beane wrote: >> [] >> >>> so now, most of the package installs I try fail with this error: >>> >>> dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1126 >>> package `fink-buildlock-openldap23-2.3.27-10': >>> missing version >>> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 2 >>> Failed: buildlock failure >> This is FAQ #6.14 I can't install anything because I get "dpkg: parse >> error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status'"! >> <http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/faq.en.html#comp-general.dpkg-parse-error> > > More specifically, this looks like the kind of problem one gets if there's a > crash during the build, thereby not permitting fink to exit gracefully. > You'll want to go down to the line it mentions, and then change "installed" > to "not-installed" for fink-buildlock-openldap23
that just results in this error: dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1123 package `fink-buildlock-openldap23-2.3.27-10': `non-installed' is not allowed for third (status) word in `status' field -- Glen L. Beane Software Engineer The Jackson Laboratory Phone (207) 288-6153 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
