Weirdness updating packages after Ubuntu upgrade to Natty
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 4579 package 'ffmpeg':
error in Version string '4:SVN-r25017-1': version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 11613 package 'qt-faststart':
error in Version string '4:SVN-r25017-1': version number does not start with digit
Sometimes the line repeats those two twice, sometimes multiple times. It seems like just a problem with that package. I am using webmin to manage my packages, so also not sure if it has something to do with this, but appears to have started with the update to Natty. Should I follow the Library doc to update to 11.10, or something else first?
Thanks
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The version number, however, leads me to suspect you didn't install ffmpeg from the Ubuntu repos. What does "apt-cache policy ffmpeg" say?
Installed: 4:SVN-r25017-1
Candidate: 4:SVN-r25017-1
Version table:
*** 4:SVN-r25017-1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
4:0.6.2-1ubuntu1.1 0
500
500
4:0.6.2-1ubuntu1 0
500
Note that if the .deb was built with a different ffmpeg configuration, this might not be a good idea. You'll want to rebuild the .deb with a properly-formatted version field
The Googles report that there is a phpBB plugin that does video sharing stuff, using ffmpeg, so it's possible that did it. But why it would use a random development version I don't know…
@hoopycat:
It doesn't look like ffmpeg (of which qt-faststart) is packaged in Ubuntu after 10.10, and the version number does not meet the requirements enforced by recent dpkg versions. So, "dpkg –remove ffmpeg qt-faststart" would quell the error and remove the deprecated package.
The version number, however, leads me to suspect you didn't install ffmpeg from the Ubuntu repos. What does "apt-cache policy ffmpeg" say?
Huh? It's a core package (maintained by the core team), nothing happened to it in 11.04 or 11.10, it's still there:
4:0.6.2-1ubuntu1.1 -
4:0.7.2-1ubuntu1 -
4:0.7.2-1ubuntu1 -
@Guspaz:
Huh? It's a core package (maintained by the core team), nothing happened to it in 11.04 or 11.10, it's still there:
I misread something before I posted that, and forgot that I did so. My only post-10.04 box was asleep in my backpack and I felt lazy. Good news is that I don't remember much between posts, so everything after the apt-cache output has been based on valid assumptions. (Probably.)
Thanks for catching that.