Re: Some advice to fix up my package database :-)
Yes there is an option to reinstall.
I used it once to reinstall something I cant remember. Let me see...oh
It was with apt-get
do the following:
apt-get --reinstall install PACKAGE_NAME
And you should be fine. I didnt test it thought.
According to apt-get manpage --reinstall reinstalls & upgrades the
package to the newest available.
Good luck
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Jeff wrote:
> 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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