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techrascal
August 13th, 2009, 07:41 PM
the exact error i'm gettin is:

Could not initialize the package information

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2 No such file or directory), E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'




no idea where to start debugging.....
thanx in advance...

Partyboi2
August 14th, 2009, 01:02 AM
Hi, open a terminal and try replacing your status file with the backup one.

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.broke
sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status