Array 4 on AMD64 - libxmuul + nvidia-glx problem

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 03:48:17PM -0500, Byron Poland wrote:

> Tried to install the NVIDIA packages so that I could get out of
> 640x400 on my 19" screen, and dpkg won't install libxmuu1 either from
> the install cd or the download from the archives with apt.  I get the
> same error:
> 
> byron at glide:/media/cdrom1/pool/main/x/xorg$ sudo dpkg -i
> libxmuu1_6.8.1-1ubuntu15_amd64.deb
> Password:
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 858
> package `libxmuu1':
>  missing version

Looks like the dpkg database has been corrupted. :-/

It's a text file, and you can try to repair it by hand.

-- 
 - mdz