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List:       fink-beginners
Subject:    Re: [Fink-beginners] How to remove build lock?
From:       Martin Costabel <costabel () wanadoo ! fr>
Date:       2005-06-26 21:24:03
Message-ID: 42BF1CF3.5000106 () wanadoo ! fr
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Thøger Juul Thorsen wrote:
> I've been trying to build the openoffice.org 1.9, which for some
> reason failed. I decided to give it up, removed the source and the
> build folder.
> 
> Now I'm lacking disk space and decided i would remove KDE and keep
> only Gnome.
> 
> However, a 'fink remove kdebase3-ssl' gives me the following reply:
> 
> Password:
> Information about 4956 packages read in 14 seconds.
> dpkg --remove kdebase3-ssl
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 9087
> package `fink-buildlock-openoffice.org-1.9m97-3':
>  missing version
> ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 2

This can happen when you interrupt your build process at a bad moment. 
The problem is the same as described in FAQ#6.14 "I can't install 
anything because I get "dpkg: parse error, in file 
`/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status'"!"
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/faq.en.html#comp-general.dpkg-parse-error

-- 
Martin



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