Update lists not working

[anon222]

Hm, looks like /var/lib/dpkg/status got messed up
There are backups of this file
To list the backups use

Code:

ls -l /var/backups/dpkg.status.*

Now copy /var/backups/dpkg.status.0 to /var/lib/dpkg/status

Code:

sudo cp /var/backups/dpkg.status.0 /var/lib/dpkg/status

And try to run the updates.

If that doesn't help try to use the other backup files
but as you see the files are compressed

Code:

ls  /var/backups/dpkg.status.*
/var/backups/dpkg.status.0     /var/backups/dpkg.status.4.gz
/var/backups/dpkg.status.1.gz  /var/backups/dpkg.status.5.gz
/var/backups/dpkg.status.2.gz  /var/backups/dpkg.status.6.gz
/var/backups/dpkg.status.3.gz

so you have to unpack them first
For example /var/backups/dpkg.status.1.gz

Code:

sudo gunzip /var/backups/dpkg.status.1.gz

Then you can copy to /var/lib/dpkg/status

Code:

sudo cp /var/backups/dpkg.status.1 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Hope this helps