Adam Warner wrote: > 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).
No, nothing to do with alien. > files list file for package `libncurses5-dev' is missing final newline It's posible that your /var/lib/dpkg/info/libncurses5-dev.list file is corrupt. Or it could just be missing a final newline at the end of the file. Like the other replies, I suggest trying to reinstall it. If dpkg won't let you reinstall it, you might need to edit that file first, make sure it has a final newline (and is not corrupt; it should just list the files and directories that are part of the package, one per line), and then reinstall it. -- see shy jo
