Comments on: Damaged /var/lib/dpkg/available http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: modustollens http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-46614 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:28:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-46614 I had this problem. Spent hours trying to fix it.

Then I thought – maybe I could overwrite the busted file with a new version; googled the file name. Came up your post did here. Took you advice (see below). Fixed it right away. Wish I had tried this 6 hours ago – i was getting so frustrated i was going to re-install the whole damn OS.

I think my wifi signal crashed during a package installation – maybe that was how the file got corrupted.

So:

THANKS!

so, proper course of action:
> sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/available /var/lib/dpkg/available.oldBusted
> sudo touch /var/lib/dpkg/available
> sudo apt-get update (or something else, this isnt the important part)

]]> By: Damaged /var/lib/dpkg/available (via Motho ke motho ka botho) « La Página de Horus http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-44624 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:16:52 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-44624 [...] I seem to have somehow corrupted my /var/lib/dpkg/available file, and I don't see a way out of it. As a result I can't install or update anything, and it might have gotten the better of me. dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1: EOF after field name `' E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1: … Read More [...]

]]> By: Fips http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-40598 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:17:37 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-40598 Thanks for the tips! Had the problem of garbled files whilst running a persistent USB keypen install.

]]> By: Fubuntu http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-39305 Thu, 07 May 2009 09:51:21 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-39305 That’s dpkg dash dash clear-avail
The blog chews the double dash and converts to a longdash.

 dpkg --clear-avail
aptitude update
]]> By: Fubuntu http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-39304 Thu, 07 May 2009 09:44:43 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-39304 Try the following:

dpkg –clear-avail
aptitude update

This will download a new copy of available packages,
hopefully removing corruption in the process.

]]> By: netswitch http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-39184 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:00:24 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-39184 Tested just now and works just fine, thanks tesseracter for the summary.

]]> By: tesseracter http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-38598 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:08:19 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-38598 so, proper course of action:
> sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/available /var/lib/dpkg/available.oldBusted
> sudo touch /var/lib/dpkg/available
> sudo apt-get update (or something else, this isnt the important part)

]]> By: felipe.lv http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-36493 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:50:42 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-36493 @eric: it’s actually pretty different to create an empty file than deleting it

]]> By: eric soukenka http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-35653 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:12:50 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-35653 awesome i ended up google this saw the simple response “just delete it” worked great computer crashed when doing an update for me causig this.

]]> By: sebrem http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-5706 Wed, 23 May 2007 10:12:27 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/damaged-varlibdpkgavailable/#comment-5706 Hi, just create an empty /var/lib/dpkg/available, it will be rebuilt, at least here (sid).

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