Update manager & Synaptic problems...

[sktsee]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 07:35 -0500, Larry Shields wrote:
[snip]
> >   
> Thanks for the help and suggestions...I did check the diversions but I 
> didn't see anything wrong, so I tried to see if by renaming it, would 
> help...After doing so it didn't make any difference...
> After using the software updates icon, it also gave me this error.
> An error occurred
> E: /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-en_1% 3 a 
> 6.10+20070601_all.debs: Files listed file for package 'kino' is missing 
> final newline.
> 
> Now I then used synaptic to remove 'kino' but when it was finished it 
> then said...
> Trying to completely remove 'kino'
> 
> E: Kinoplus: files listed file for package 'kino' missing final newline, 
> by the way, when you attempt to remove 'kino' it also tried to remove 
> 'kinoplus', but as mentioned it does not succeed...
> 
> Thanks all that I have come up with, to correct this problem but as of 
> yet it hasn't not worked...
> 
> Might you have any other suggestions...???
> 
> Thanks Larry
> 

At this point, I wouldn't try to use any of the GUI tools for package
management. In order to get a fix on the problem, you'll need to use the
command-line tools like apt, aptitude, or dpkg directly. 

Can you post the results for the following commands?
$ tail -25 /var/log/dpkg.log
$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/kino.list
$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg
$ dpkg -C
$ dpkg-divert --list
$ sudo apt-get clean
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get check
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall kino


Download the following package from packages.ubuntu.com:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/utils/di (assuming you are using edgy
from your sig. If not, then change to the distro you are using)

It's a very small util like df that has only 1 dependency (libc6) which
is already on your system. The goal here is to install it using dpkg in
debug mode to hopefully get a clue to where the problem is.

After you've downloaded the package, cd to the directory its in and
issue the following command:

(should be on 1 line)
$ sudo dpkg --debug=73 -i di_4.9.dfsg.1-1_i386.deb 2>&1 |tee output.txt

Obviously, the package name will be what you've downloaded for your
distro which is di_4.5.dfsg.1-1_<architecture>.deb for edgy.

Check the contents of output.txt to see where dpkg throws up an error
and post that to the list.

-- 
sktsee