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update and upgrade broken on feisty fawn missing final newline on a package

Asked by lobaks

Every time I try to update/upgrade my feisty fawn at the command prompt with sudo or using the update manager I get an error like this:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-en_1%3a7.04+20080228_all.deb: files list file for package `libieee1284-3' is missing final newline

I have tried many things including removing the libieee1284-3 with no luck. Any suggestions ?

Is there a safe way to skip to the latest alpha distribution if there's no way to fix this ?

cheers.

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Nick Ellery (nick.ellery) said : 		#1

Hardy Heron 8.04 was released a few weeks ago. I would suggest downloading and burning the Live CD, and overwriting your current version if you cannot get update manager to work.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

echo -en '\n' | sudo tee -a /var/lib/dpkg/info/libieee1284-3.list

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then retry.

Hope this helps

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