Ubuntu
libtar package

installArchives() failed: Extracting templates from packages: ... Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 27716 package 'libtar0': `Provides' field, invalid package name `libtarDepends': character `' not allowed (only letters, digits and characters `-+._') Error in function:

Bug #1160236 reported by TauTona
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libtar (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

installArchives() failed:
Extracting templates from packages: 5%%
Extracting templates from packages: 11%%
Extracting templates from packages: 16%%
Extracting templates from packages: 22%%
Extracting templates from packages: 28%%
Extracting templates from packages: 33%%
Extracting templates from packages: 39%%
Extracting templates from packages: 45%%
Extracting templates from packages: 50%%
Extracting templates from packages: 56%%
Extracting templates from packages: 62%%
Extracting templates from packages: 67%%
Extracting templates from packages: 73%%
Extracting templates from packages: 79%%
Extracting templates from packages: 84%%
Extracting templates from packages: 90%%
Extracting templates from packages: 96%%
Extracting templates from packages: 100%%
Preconfiguring packages ...

Extracting templates from packages: 5%%
Extracting templates from packages: 11%%
Extracting templates from packages: 16%%
Extracting templates from packages: 22%%
Extracting templates from packages: 28%%
Extracting templates from packages: 33%%
Extracting templates from packages: 39%%
Extracting templates from packages: 45%%
Extracting templates from packages: 50%%
Extracting templates from packages: 56%%
Extracting templates from packages: 62%%
Extracting templates from packages: 67%%
Extracting templates from packages: 73%%
Extracting templates from packages: 79%%
Extracting templates from packages: 84%%
Extracting templates from packages: 90%%
Extracting templates from packages: 96%%
Extracting templates from packages: 100%%
Preconfiguring packages ...

Extracting templates from packages: 5%%
Extracting templates from packages: 11%%
Extracting templates from packages: 16%%
Extracting templates from packages: 22%%
Extracting templates from packages: 28%%
Extracting templates from packages: 33%%
Extracting templates from packages: 39%%
Extracting templates from packages: 45%%
Extracting templates from packages: 50%%
Extracting templates from packages: 56%%
Extracting templates from packages: 62%%
Extracting templates from packages: 67%%
Extracting templates from packages: 73%%
Extracting templates from packages: 79%%
Extracting templates from packages: 84%%
Extracting templates from packages: 90%%
Extracting templates from packages: 96%%
Extracting templates from packages: 100%%
Preconfiguring packages ...

Extracting templates from packages: 5%%
Extracting templates from packages: 11%%
Extracting templates from packages: 16%%
Extracting templates from packages: 22%%
Extracting templates from packages: 28%%
Extracting templates from packages: 33%%
Extracting templates from packages: 39%%
Extracting templates from packages: 45%%
Extracting templates from packages: 50%%
Extracting templates from packages: 56%%
Extracting templates from packages: 62%%
Extracting templates from packages: 67%%
Extracting templates from packages: 73%%
Extracting templates from packages: 79%%
Extracting templates from packages: 84%%
Extracting templates from packages: 90%%
Extracting templates from packages: 96%%
Extracting templates from packages: 100%%
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 27716 package 'libtar0':
 `Provides' field, invalid package name `libtarDepends': character `' not allowed (only letters, digits and characters `-+._')
Error in function:

Daniel Hahler (blueyed)
summary: - installArchives() failed: Extracting templates from packages: 5%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 11%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 16%% Extracting templates from packages: 22%% Extracting
- templates from packages: 28%% Extracting templates from packages: 33%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 39%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 45%% Extracting templates from packages: 50%% Extracting
- templates from packages: 56%% Extracting templates from packages: 62%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 67%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 73%% Extracting templates from packages: 79%% Extracting
- templates from packages: 84%% Extracting templates from packages: 90%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 96%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 100%% Preconfiguring packages ... Extracting templates from
- packages: 5%% Extracting templates from packages: 11%% Extracting
- templates from packages: 16%% Extracting templates from packages: 22%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 28%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 33%% Extracting templates from packages: 39%% Extracting
- templates from packages: 45%% Extracting templates from packages: 50%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 56%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 62%% Extracting templates from packages: 67%% Extracting
- templates from packages: 73%% Extracting templates from packages: 79%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 84%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 90%% Extracting templates from packages: 96%% Extracting
- templates from packages: 100%% Preconfiguring packages ... Extracting
- templates from packages: 5%% Extracting templates from packages: 11%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 16%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 22%% Extracting templates from packages: 28%% Extracting
- templates from packages: 33%% Extracting templates from packages: 39%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 45%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 50%% Extracting templates from packages: 56%% Extracting
- templates from packages: 62%% Extracting templates from packages: 67%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 73%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 79%% Extracting templates from packages: 84%% Extracting
- templates from packages: 90%% Extracting templates from packages: 96%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 100%% Preconfiguring packages ...
- Extracting templates from packages: 5%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 11%% Extracting templates from packages: 16%% Extracting
- templates from packages: 22%% Extracting templates from packages: 28%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 33%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 39%% Extracting templates from packages: 45%% Extracting
- templates from packages: 50%% Extracting templates from packages: 56%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 62%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 67%% Extracting templates from packages: 73%% Extracting
- templates from packages: 79%% Extracting templates from packages: 84%%
- Extracting templates from packages: 90%% Extracting templates from
- packages: 96%% Extracting templates from packages: 100%% Preconfiguring
- packages ... dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near
- line 27716 package 'libtar0': `Provides' field, invalid package name
- `libtarDepends': character `' not allowed (only letters, digits and
- characters `-+._') Error in function:
+ installArchives() failed: Extracting templates from packages: ...
+ Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: error: parsing file
+ '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 27716 package 'libtar0': `Provides'
+ field, invalid package name `libtarDepends': character `' not allowed
+ (only letters, digits and characters `-+._') Error in function:
Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
affects: apparmor (Ubuntu) → libtar (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Magnus Holmgren (holmgren) wrote :

I think this has to be a bug in dpkg or a one-time freak accident where a line break somehow got deleted from /var/lib/dpkg/available or the package lists that were used to build it.

Changed in libtar (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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