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How do I rebuild a corrupt dpkg status file?
My system constantly complains about errors in my dpkg status file, and nothing I have tried from the internet seems to work. I could fix it manually- if I could get the file to load in under an hour.
For example:
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 116506 package 'virtualbox-3.1':
error in Version string '3.1.2-56127_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid character in revision number
Is there some command I can run to get dpkg to stop complaining about packages I removed two years ago?
Update:
Geany loads it fine, now I need someone to tell me what to remove/change to get rid of these obnoxious messages :).
