auto complete broke with apt-get remove
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dctrl-tools (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: dctrl-tools
when i try to remove a package whether its through aptitude apt-get or dpkg i get the error:
grep-status: /var/lib/
now i tried to pull the lines out of the status file then apt-get -f install to reinstall them and it still gets that error. i dont know what caused this but i noticed it after i was trying to remove teeworlds via: sudo apt-get remove tee[tab key] then the error message. im reporting this a s a bug cause i cant figure out how to fix it i looked at similar issues and the solutions had no effect on it. i also did a aptitude reinstall dctrl-tools. that reinstalled fine but still got the error. i even tried to replace the stats file with the status.old. ones.
the printout form line 17058 from the status file
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Package: libnl1
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 420
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Source: libnl
Version: 1.1-5build1
Replaces: libnl1-pre6, libnl1-pre8
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8)
Conflicts: libnl1-pre6, libnl1-pre8
Description: library for dealing with netlink sockets
This is a library for applications dealing with netlink sockets.
The library provides an interface for raw netlink messaging and various
netlink family specific interfaces.
Original-
Homepage: http://
That sort of error usually occurs because of a badly formatted package installed from a third-party source (but can occur due to other reasons as well). What's the paragraph immediately before the indicated line?