Re: Some advice to fix up my package database :-)
Adam Warner, 2001-Dec-06 23:40 +1300:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using alien for the first time today. Now I can't install any
> package using apt-get (it might not be the alien packages but I thought
> I should mention it).
>
> Before I make a real mess I thought I'd get some advice on the error
> message:
>
> apt-get install ucbmpeg-play
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> ucbmpeg-play
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/69.2kB of archives. After unpacking 177kB will be used.
> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ucbmpeg-play_2.3p-10.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
> files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ucbmpeg-play_2.3p-10.1_i386.deb
> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> The strange error message is:
> files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline
>
> This happens when trying to install any package.
>
> I can't even do a dpkg --purge --force-all libncurses5-dev
>
> I'm told "Processing was halted because there were too many errors" (the
> same error message above).
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
See if this might work...
# dpkg -P --force-reinstreq
The package needs to be reinstalled. I thought there was a dpkg
option to reinstall, but I can't seem to find info on that.
good luck,
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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