Regading installing PHP5

hemantchandani · 09-30-2011, 10:59 PM

while installing PHP5 in ubuntu 11.04
this error is coming:

dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 0:
newline in field name `/usr/share/omf-langpack/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-manager-zh_CN.omf'
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

now what to do.........???
is there any solution?????

kasl33 · 10-01-2011, 12:34 PM

Are you installing Php using the dpkg command, or the apt-get or aptitude command?

If you are using dpkg, try this instead:

Code:

sudo apt-get update <-- this will refresh your repository caches
sudo apt-get upgrade <-- this will upgrade your system
sudo apt-get install php <-- this will install php

You may have to put php5 instead of php after apt-get install.

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hemantchandani · 10-01-2011, 01:09 PM

i had tried this thing but the same error is coming.........

while installing PHP5 in ubuntu 11.04
this error is coming:

dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 0:
newline in field name `/usr/share/omf-langpack/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-manager-zh_CN.omf'
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

now what to do.........???
is there any solution?????

its not upgrading ...........

kasl33 · 10-01-2011, 01:19 PM

Now that I'm a little more awake...

It looks like your dpkg is corrupted. Maybe someone else can add in their opinions. To me, it seems like dpkg might need to be reinstalled. I don't even know how something like this would happen.

The only way I can think to reinstall dpkg is to compile it from source or reinstall the whole system. I hope I'm wrong or misreading this :/