On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:21:57 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > Hi. > > I asked about this over in Debian-user, and didn't see any responses. > So I opened a ticket and it said it was forwarding it to the qt-kde > team. > > I guess I might as well as here too, then, and maybe we can get it > cleared up and I'll ask for the ticket to be closed. > > Is there any way I can find the "files list" and add a "newline" > myself? On the other hand, I really REALLY do not like the idea of > messing with the internal apt files...
[...] > Package: libqt4-qt3support > Version: 4.4.0~rc1-5 > Severity: important > > > Every time I try to do anyting with apt, the following error > occurs: > > ===== > Extracting templates from packages: 100% > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... dpkg: error > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnutls26_2.2.3~rc-1_i386.deb > (--unpack): > files list file for package `libqt4-qt3support' is missing final > newline > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnutls26_2.2.3~rc-1_i386.deb > Processing was halted because there were too many errors. > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I think the relevant file is /var/lib/dpkg/info/libqt4-qt3support.list. Here is what this file looks like for me, for the same version of libqt4-qt3support: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/libqt4-qt3support.list /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/lintian /usr/share/lintian/overrides /usr/share/lintian/overrides/libqt4-qt3support /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libqt4-qt3support /usr/share/doc/libqt4-qt3support/copyright /usr/share/doc/libqt4-qt3support/GPL_EXCEPTION_ADDENDUM.TXT.gz /usr/share/doc/libqt4-qt3support/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/lib /usr/lib/qt4 /usr/lib/qt4/plugins /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/designer /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/designer/libqt3supportwidgets.so /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/accessible /usr/lib/qt4/plugins/accessible/libqtaccessiblecompatwidgets.so /usr/lib/libQt3Support.so.4.4.0 /usr/lib/libQt3Support.so.4.4 /usr/lib/libQt3Support.so.4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ You can try to restore the file. Google finds mailing list posts claiming that such corrupt *.list files can simply be deleted, then apt/dpkg will complain about the missing file but it will allow you to uninstall and then reinstall the package in question. I have never tried that myself. You might want to use fsck and smartmontools to figure out if there is a problem with your hard disk. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
