On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Ales Jerman wrote: > Hello! > I have one problem for a quite long time. So, when I try to install/remove > anything it returns an error, which is pasted under this text. > > >>>>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su - > Password: > lynx:~# ls > Mail > lynx:~# apt-get remove mrtg > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > mrtg > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 300 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1578kB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y > (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing mrtg (--remove): > files list file for package `gnome-games-locale' is missing final newline > Errors were encountered while processing: > mrtg > Processing was halted because there were too many errors. > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > lynx:~# > <<<<<<<< > I guess that there are some conf. files in which are some missing data for > that package `gnome-games-locale', which is even not installed, I think. > If anyone could please tell me how to deal with it, or at least how to > 'reset' the apt-get. > Thanks for help.
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-games-locale.list. That package is either in the installed, or removed but not purged state.
