Error repeatedly on Ubuntu upgrade to 11.04 beta (error in Version string 'wx-11.3.1-1': version number does not start with digit)

[sl45sms]

On upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 Beta 1 the following error is repeatedly shown on terminal:

error in Version string 'wx-11.3.1-1': version number does not start with digit

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

hello
Can you please run in a terminal

sudo apt-get clean

update-manager -d

thanks
Fabio

[sl45sms (sl45sms)]

Sorry, my fault, i think the error comes not from upgrade but from package amaya

I'm on Natty Narwhal and on update terminal i get the folowing:

...............
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 50170 package 'amaya':
 error in Version string 'wx-11.3.1-1': version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 51735 package 'amaya':
 error in Version string 'wx-11.3.1-1': version number does not start with digit
..............

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
I cannot see amaya in Natty's repository using synaptic or dpkg -S
Then the problem is why update-manager consider this package as upgradeable ?
I mark as affecting update-manager too.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

@sl45sms
to fix your problem I think you have to remove the amaya-data and amaya-doc and reinstall it from the w3c site.
Sorry
Fabio

[sl45sms (sl45sms)]

After removing amaya and upgrade the error is still there

error in Version string 'wx-11.3.1-1': version number does not start with digit

[sl45sms (sl45sms)]

Here is the contents for package amaya on /var/lib/dpkg/status

Package: amaya
Status: deinstall ok config-files
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 52284
Maintainer: Laurent Carcone <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: wx-11.3.1-1
Config-Version: wx-11.3.1-1
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.5), libraptor1 (>= 1.4.16), libsm6, libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1-4), libx11-6, libxext6, libxinerama1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1)
Description: XHTML, MathML, and SVG editor from w3.org
 Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents
 directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with
 the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment.
 Amaya is based on the Thot toolkit developed at INRIA.

Remove the above manually fix the problem.
I believe update-manager don't auto remove the package because the wrong version string

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

This isn't a bug in update-manager and certainly not in the official amaya version that is in the repositories. You downloaded a package from amaya's website and that package has a invalid version number. Unofficial packages are unsupported in ubuntu.

[reagle (joseph.reagle)]

I think the problem is that there is no official version in natty. I certainly can't find it.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Correct, it has been removed from the archive in the jaunty cycle, see bug #355013. And as I said, the package on the amaya homepage has a non-valid version string. You should complain to the programmers and have them fix it.