[Sussex]The first of the Debian based confusion(s)

[Steve Dobson]

John

On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 20:14 -0400, John D. wrote:
> Ok, so if I try to install just about anything, I'm getting errors like this
> 
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.3.2.ds1-21_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  files list file for package `libgtk1.2-common' is missing final newline
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.3.2.ds1-21_i386.deb
> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> root at johnsPC:
> 
> Obviously somethings not right, but what?

See my other post for updating /etc/apt/sources.list and that runing
"apt-get upgrade" that might fix this.

Steve