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

[Thomas Adam]

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 06:51:29AM -0400, John D. wrote:
> So, having "butchered" my apt/sources.list from Thomas' and Steves 
> advice it now looks like this:

You don't want to be doing that...  :P

> `libgtk1.2-common' is missing final newline Errors were encountered
> while processing: vdr-kbd Processing was halted because there were too
> many errors. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> root at johnsPC:~#

Right, I suspect that the 'libgtk1.2-common' package is either in the
installed, removed but NOT purged state.  Does the file:

/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgtk1.2-common.list

exist?  If so, kindly add a blank line to the end of the file and try
the command again.

> so it's still rather confusing (not to mention, that when I tried to
> "do the usual" and install the nvidia driver, I ended up with an error
> about missing files/libs that I've never seen before :( ).

Which was what?

-- Thomas Adam

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