Broken foomatic-db-engine

[lotech]

I was in the middle of installing new package and got this error :

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sudo apt-get install kompozer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xubuntu-desktop: Depends: foomatic-db-engine but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

The foomatic-db-engine package can not be fixed by any means, it just stuck there preventing me from installing anything else > > >

[Rog131]

Re: Broken foomatic-db-engine

And, if you try to install:

sudo apt-get install foomatic-db-engine

Do you get error message ? What kind of message ?

[lotech]

Re: Broken foomatic-db-engine

I got the same error :

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
foomatic-db-gutenprint foomatic-gui
The following NEW packages will be installed:
foomatic-db-engine
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
31 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/285kB of archives.
After this operation, 901kB of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 13952:
invalid package name (
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

[Rog131]

Re: Broken foomatic-db-engine

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 13952

Something is wrong in the /var/lib/dpkg/status file, line 13952 or near it => invalid package name.


With the error message: " dpkg: parse error, in file /var/lib/dpkg/status" i can find (google finds):

> Ubuntu Formums: how do I repair /var/lib/dpkg/status?
> LinuxQuestions.org: APT/dpkg errors! /var/lib/dpkg/status
> Bug #139083 in dpkg (Ubuntu): dpkg -l reports: dpkg-query: parse error

[lotech]

Re: Broken foomatic-db-engine

Simply rename status-old to status fixed that, thanks a million