installing libarchive-zip-perl

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 20:42, david <david at daku.org> wrote:
>
> Folks
>
> While doing a new install on Ubuntu 20.04 on Raspberry Pi, I issued:
>   apt-get -y install libarchive-zip-perl
> I get the diagnostic
>    files list file for package 'libnet-telnet-perl' is missing final newline
> and the install fails.
>
> I previously installed libnet-telnet-perl and it succeeded.
>nett
> Is there a problem possibly with the public distribution of files, or
> might I be doing something wrong?

Possibly the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/libnet-telnet-perl is corrupt.
Move that file away and

 sudo dpkg --configure -a
 sudo apt -f install
 sudo apt clean
 sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

then try the install again.

Colin




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> David
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