Failure message

[Billie Walsh]

On 07/15/2018 09:37 PM, Clay Weber wrote:
> 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.

I've tried deleting/re-installing liblouis-data. No luck.

apt full-upgrade ges through a ling list downloading then fails with

files list file for package 'liblouis-data' is missing final newline
E: sub-process user/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

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