HI, I often meet the problem for broken package, need a more detail on apt-get and dpkg tools
Here is the last pb, My laptop stopped suddenly, (forgot to plug power!!! ), while I was installing gdm package, I got after that the problem, in libdmx1, I have tryed several option to remove it, reinstall it I tryed dpkg --force-all -r libdmx1, I tryed to force install, force remove, I always got the error: Package is in very bad inconsistent state-- you should try reinstalling it before attempting a removal Reading database .... 30%dpkg; unreocverable fatal error , aborting files list file for package 'libdmx1' is missing final newline. I tryed dpkg --reconfigure -a and again apt-get install libdmx1 same error Thanks for help best regards bela

