[ubuntu-uk] APT problem

[David Andrew]

The section of my status file reads:


Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libcairo2 (>= 1.0.2-2),
libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.60), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.60), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0),
libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.9.3), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0),
liblaunchpad-integration0 (>= 0.0patch26), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.12.0),
libperl5.8 (>= 5.8.7), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8a-1),
libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxi6,
libxinerama1, ,ibxrandr2, libxrender1, python2.4 (>= 2.3.90), tcl8.4 (>=
8.4.5), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), xchat-common (= 2.6.1-0ubuntu2)

I can't see what the problem is - do I need to check the status of all those
packages?

On 12/17/06, David Pashley <david at davidpashley.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 17, 2006 at 16:35, David Andrew praised the llamas by saying:
> > A couple of months ago one of my computers froze when I was up-dating
> some
> > packages - I now get the folowing error messaes when i try to use APT -
> or
> > synaptic.
> >
> > E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
> > E: Error occurred while processing xchat (NewVersion1)
> > E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
> Basically your /var/lib/dpkg/status file is corrupt. The best way to fix
> it is to make a copy of the file as a backup and then open the original
> in a text editor and search for xchat and then fix what ever the problem
> is.
>
> There is a chance that you would have lost some information about
> whether you have some packages installed. You should be able to fix this
> by either installing the application again or by hacking the status file
> again to show it installed.
>
> >
> > Is there any easy soilution to this?
> >
> > I am using Edubuntu 6.06.
> >
> >
>
>
>
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