Screwed up apt database I think FIXED

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 10 December 2012 15:47:19 NoOp did opine:

> On 12/10/2012 11:40 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> ...
> 
> > I went thru the /var/dpkg/info files and nuked every entry that
> > referenced those files & that was quite a project, those files are
> > huge, but synaptic is now happy except for a missing key from the
> > freecad repo site.
> > 
> > That isn't a ubuntu problem and I can live with that.
> 
> You could install the repo version:
> 
> $ apt-cache policy freecad
> freecad:
>   Installed: 0.12.5284-dfsg-5ubuntu1
>   Candidate: 0.12.5284-dfsg-5ubuntu1
>   Version table:
>  *** 0.12.5284-dfsg-5ubuntu1 0
>         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386
> Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Sure I could, its only 3 years out of date!  This package is being VERY 
frequently updated, with 1-3 updates a week.

Cheers, Gene
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