problem during upgrading

[stas khromoy]

well

it looked like the file in question
/var/lib/dpkg/available
wound up to be corrupted. thankfully i found an available-backup in the 
same directory.

i restored the file
and ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade
and everything was tip-top

hope this helps some one
and i guess i have another file to add to back ups


stas khromoy wrote:
> of source
>
> i've tried running
>
> apt-get remove <offending pkg>
> in this case it is nvidia-glx
>
> i get the same error
>
>
>
> -- 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>  nvidia-glx
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 53 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 12.5MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1680 
> package `module-init-tools':
> `Replaces' field, invalid package name `
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>
>
> Me - Atlantic wrote:
>>> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1680 
>>> package `module-init-tools':
>>> `Replaces' field, invalid package name `
>>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>>>
>>>     
>> Did you run apt-get update first?
>>   
>
>> And are you running under sudo?
>>
>>
>>   
>