Ubuntu 10.10 Invalid version string in /var/lib/dpkg/status

Asked by robtreed

dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 37094 package 'virtualbox-3.0':
 error in Version string `3.0.12-54655_Ubuntu_jaunty': invalid character in revision number

tried and can not remove virtualbox-3-0

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Jonathan Wiltshire (jwiltshire) said :
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It looks like an unofficial version of VirtualBox has been installed in the past which has an invalid version string. This isn't a bug, so I'm converting it into a question.

I'm also assigning it to dpkg for further help. You may have to manually edit the /var/lib/dpkg/status file to remove the broken entry, and you may have to do some cleaning up afterwards.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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Ofir Klinger (klinger-ofir) said :
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I removed the package virtualbox-3.0 from the line indicted in the message from dpkg (in both /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/available), and now the message is gone.