Hi, I had similar problems after new installation of Ubuntu 8.04. My error message was: dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `*' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
For * being several installed packages eg. python-conf, xserver-xorg-video-ati and so on. In /var/lib/dpkg/info/ I really found that the *.list files for those packages were missing. But the packages really seemed to be installed, because a "sudo apt-get install python-conf" would tell that it is installed. For the same reason "sudo apt-get -f install" did not work as well. The only option I had was to trick apt-get to spit out the tentatively missing packages again: sudo apt-get --reinstall <some installed package> With this you can build up a command to reinstall all such broken packages: sudo apt-get --reinstall install $(echo y | sudo apt-get --reinstall install python-conf | grep "dpkg:" | grep -o "\`.*'" | sed "s/[\`']//g") Unfortunately there are cyclic dependencies between some of these packages and also other conflicts while reinstalling. A work around would be to add in a "| head -n20" before the ')' to only install the first 20 of the list. And then run the whole command repeatedly. -- files list file for package `*' is missing final newline https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108189 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
