strange error while I add/remove applications!

[NoOp]

On 01/16/2008 07:58 PM, AlgoMantra wrote:
> And the most recent session:
> 
> *fadereu at fadeurium:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
> fadereu at fadeurium:~$ sudo aptitude reinstall libtracker-gtk0
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
>   libtracker-gtk0
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 49.1kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main libtracker-gtk0 0.6.3-0ubuntu3 [
> 49.1kB]
> Fetched 49.1kB in 4s (12.2kB/s)
> (Reading database ...
> dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libtracker-gtk0'
> missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libtracker-gtk0_0.6.3-0ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  files list file for package `libtheora0' contains empty filename
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libtracker-gtk0_0.6.3-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> fadereu at fadeurium:~$
> *
> 
> 

It's up to you, but you might want to consider just:

sudo apt-get remove --purge tracker

for the time being.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/

Or, after you purge it, then:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

then

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tracker