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I get

dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 14 package 'python-pkg-resources':
file details field `Size' not allowed in status file
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

when I'm trying to install libev4. I run

sudo apt-get install libev4

Please advice

Maksym Polshcha
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Your dpkg status file seems to be corrupted. However, as Ubuntu does automated backups of this file, you can restore it to a known good copy:

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.bak
sudo cp /var/backups/dpkg.status.0 /var/lib/dpkg/status
sudo apt-get update

If everything goes fine, you can then remove /var/lib/dpkg/status.bak.

Reference: dpkg exit with error parsing file `/var/lib/dpkg/status`, what to do?

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Yong Jie Wong
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