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 -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
