Tried both of them I even tried apt-get update after
restoring the status file.
Mike M.
--- Levi Bard <levi@bard.sytes.net> wrote:
> > After a system lockup and a run of fsck I can't do
> a
> > system upgrade Here is the errors I'm getting from
> > apt-get upgrade
> > Reading Package Lists... Error!
> > W: Encountered status field in a non-version
> > description
> > E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
> > E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> > E: The package lists or status file could not be
> > parsed or opened.
> >
> > I've restored the /var/lib/dpkg/status file from a
> > backup but no luck in getting apt to work. Does
> this
> > requre a reinstall to fix?
>
> First thing to try is apt-get update, which may or
> may not fix a corrupted cache. If that doesn't
> work, you may want to try backing up /var/lib/dpkg
> and/or /var/lib/apt and then restoring them from
> older backups.
>
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The requirements said
"Windows 95/98/NT or better"
So I installed Linux
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