Thread: Application manager - OPERATION FAILED - All my installed apps are gone.. Am i F***ED
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Makurosu is offline Makurosu
2008-03-12 , 00:14
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#16
Originally Posted by ArnimS View Post
There is a backup file for application status.

As root user, copy /var/lib/dpkg/status-old to /var/lib/dpkg/status and refresh the application list.

(edit), this is what i did when i had that error and it saved me. When i looked at my status file, it had some corruption (non-ascii characters) in it. This may not be the best solution. Searching the web for these errors also yields the suggestion to run:
dpkg --configure -a
So YMMV, HTH, HAND. :P
Thank you. The dpkg --configure -a command above just saved me. There was a few characters of corruption at line 1999 of my /var/lib/dpkg/status file. I removed the corruption, saved, and Application Manager worked again. This problem has been puzzling me for several days. Again, thank you.
 

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