Re: dpkg-dev / dpkg broke?

[Bob Billson <bob@goleader.com>]

Seth R Arnold <sarnold@willmatte.edu wrote:
> There are still four packages left that it isn't upgrading, due to this
> error. I assume the maintainer will fix this thing soon enough, but is there
> any way to get to the other packages until then? :)

I had the same problem.  I solved it by doing:

dpkg --install dpkg-dev
dpkg --install dpkg

After that apt was happy again.

              bob
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