At Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:57:30 +1000, ramon buckland wrote: > I got a debian box that, possibly due to harddrive > errors, the dpkg no longer installs anything.
[...] > The error > " files list file for package `update' contains empty filename" is always the > same > though. nasty. first off, check what state dpkg thinks its in: dpkg -C if it gives you some advice regarding "update", then follow it. otherwise, you probably want to reinstall the "update" package. do something like "dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/update_*.deb" (or redownload the deb if it isn't there anymore) you may have to force it, but i hope not. see dpkg --force-help (and man page). -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
