vfiz
June 13th, 2010, 11:55 PM
I just did a clean install of lucid today. I went about installing all my normal programs, but now I can't install anything else. When I try, I get this error:
dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 38072 package 'libxml-libxml-common-perl':
error in Version string `1048576:': nothing after colon in version number
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
And my /var/lib/dpkg/status looks like this around that line:
Package: libxml-libxml-common-perl
Status: unknown ok not-installed
Version: 1048576:
Should I just delete this section from /var/lib/dpkg/status?
Just to be clear, this stops anything from installing now (also, autoremoving doesn't work), not just programs that mention libxml-libxml-common-perl.
dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 38072 package 'libxml-libxml-common-perl':
error in Version string `1048576:': nothing after colon in version number
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
And my /var/lib/dpkg/status looks like this around that line:
Package: libxml-libxml-common-perl
Status: unknown ok not-installed
Version: 1048576:
Should I just delete this section from /var/lib/dpkg/status?
Just to be clear, this stops anything from installing now (also, autoremoving doesn't work), not just programs that mention libxml-libxml-common-perl.