Failure message

[Clay Weber]

On Sun, July 15, 2018 8:58 pm, Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 07/15/2018 07:33 PM, Clay Weber wrote:
>
>> On Sat, July 14, 2018 5:39 pm, Billie Walsh wrote:
>>
>>
>>> dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
>>>  files list file for package 'liblouis-data' is missing final newline
>>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>>> A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
>>>
>>>
>> I suspect that the package "liblouis-data" is corrupted. I suggest
>> clearing out your package cache and reinstalling it. There should be an
>> option in Muon or Synaptic to do this, else the following command:
>>
>> $ sudo apt clean
>>
>>
>> Reinstalling the package will then download a new copy.
>>
>
> Everything leads right back to the same error message.
>
>
>
Try uninstalling it, unless you need Braille support it is not a vital
library, or perhaps try a different package mirror.

You could also try deleting any files in /var/lib/dpkg/info relating to
liblouis-data, including liblouis-data.list, which is the specific file
causing the error. Then run sudo dpkg --configure -a

You might also post the relevant terminal output from apt update and apt
full-upgrade to see a more complete error message, if nothing else is
fixing it.  Maybe we are not seeing enough to fulle determine the problem.