dpkg: serious warning: file list file for package 'package' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed - can't install any packages

[Fred Roller]

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 10:08 -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> Not really sure what to do at this point.  It would be nice to make
> it 
> work again, otherwise I'll have to reload the machine which I'd like
> to 
> avoid doing.
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks

Please wait for others to confirm but with some research check to see
if 

dpkg --configure -a

may work to rebuild everything.
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Fred R.
www.fwrgallery.com

"Life is like Linux - simple; if you are fighting it, you are doing
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