[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] invalid character in revision number

[Frank Mehnert]

On Thursday 29 July 2010, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> I ran aptitude update; aptitude safe-upgrade on a Sid box and got this:
>
> Need to get 0B/342MB of archives. After unpacking 11.2MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
> Extracting templates from packages: 100%
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 61529
> package 'virtualbox-3.1':
>  error in Version string `3.1.2-56127_Debian_lenny': invalid character
> in revision number
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
> localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB
>
> Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB
>
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
> dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 61529
> package 'virtualbox-3.1':
>  error in Version string `3.1.2-56127_Debian_lenny': invalid character
> in revision number
>
> Is it my bad? dpkg -l gives me the same message...

Please install a newer release. Either VBox 3.1.8 or VBox 3.2.6.
The older packages indeed have wrong package names as this wasn't
enforced by older Debian tools. Btw, you are talking about the PUEL
packages which are avalable from www.virtualbox.org but this list
is about the OSE packages which are part of the Sid distribution.

Kind regards,

Frank
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