[ubuntu-in] can't install anything, many errors

[Vivek Khurana]

Hi!

On Jan 18, 2008 10:53 AM, AlgoMantra <algomantra at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I haven't been able to install any packages for over a month now.
> The situation is beyond urgent, and quite ridiculous since I can't
> continue any of my work.
>
> The system kept saying that the file containing list of files for libtheora0
> and
>  libtracker-gtk0 were missing every time I run apt-get. I fixed that by
> getting the same from
> elsewhere. Now when I tried re-installing dpkg itself, it says:
>
> dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libtiff4' missing,
> assuming package has no files currently installed.
>  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.14.5ubuntu16_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  files list file for package `libtrackerclient0' is missing final newline
>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.14.5ubuntu16_i386.deb
>  Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>  fadereu at fadeurium:~$
>

 Did you try `sudo apt-get -f install` ? If so, what was the output ?

regards
VK
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