Re: Problems

[Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Craig wrote:

> selecting previously deselected package perl-5.005-base.
> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing perl-5.005-base_6.3_all.deb
> (--install):
>  files list file for package `perl' contains empty filename
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  perl-5.005-base_6.3_all.deb
> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> anyone know how to fix this ? Tried apt-get install -f :(

I would suspect a corrupted download. Delete
/var/cache/apt/archieves/perl* and do another apt-get install

Rus
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