installing libarchive-zip-perl

[david]

At 01:36 PM 9/11/2020, you wrote:
>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
>
I assume you meant /var/lib/dpkg/info/libnet-telnet-perl.list

The file contained a few hundred non-printables (unlike other .list 
files).  The command
I then applied your formula, and the 'apt upgrade' failed with
   files list file for package 'libref-util-xs-perl' contains empty file namee

I didn't continue.

PS:  Shouldn't this all 'just work'?  This is the LTS distribution.

David