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Problem while upgrading to Hardy 8.10: missing final newline

Asked by Syed Aslam

I updated from Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 to Ubuntu Hardy 8.10, but many packages were not installed. It shows there is one broken package. The following error was flashed:

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libelf1_0.131-4_i386.deb (--unpack):
 files list file for package `liblcms1' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libelf1_0.131-4_i386.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Is there any workaround for this?

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Syed Aslam (syed-iamsam) said : 		#1

Please have a look at this: http://pastebin.com/m2de37190

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

Cannot update missing final newline

Open a terminal and find the package into /var/lib/dpkg/info/
and add something like this substitute the "your_package_name.list" with your real name of package:
echo -en '\n' | sudo tee -a /var/lib/dpkg/info/your_package_name.list

for example:
echo -en '\n' | sudo tee -a /var/lib/dpkg/info/gxine.list

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

Hope this helps

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Then open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
(when the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

Hope this helps

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