[plug] apt-get died

[Ryan]

Searching the PLUG archives will reveal this:

http://www.cantech.net.au/plug/2002-08/msg00621.html

Which is one I wrote a while ago. OK that is freaky, it was EXACTLY one
year ago.

It was not actually a problem with the status file in my case, but an
unrelated error, I can't guarantee that will fix your problem as it
might be different, but it won't hurt to try.

I had to 'dpkg -l apt' to see what version it was then downloaded the
same version apt .deb package from my nearest mirror and installed it
with dpkg -i after a 'dpkg --purge apt'

Ryan

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 17:34, Ryan Smith wrote:
> hello all
> 
> apt-get decided to die just now. I dont think I did anything to provke
> its death, but its dead. All I get is this error:
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> 
> I tried to update it but that just came up with the same error.
> 
> Does anyone get or has had this same error?
> 
> Help appreciated
> Ryan
> 
>