any software installation problem

[kabir96]

i get this message when i try to install any software
please help i am new to ubuntu

khan@khan-GA-73VM-S2:~$ sudo apt-get install synaptic
[sudo] password for khan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libept1
Suggested packages:
dwww menu deborphan
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libept1 synaptic
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2,284 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,549 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Selecting previously deselected package libept1.
(Reading database ... 30%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'liboil0.3' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
khan@khan-GA-73VM-S2:~$

[cortman]

Hi, and welcome to Ubuntu and the forums!

Please open a terminal and type the following commands

sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt/archives/*
sudo apt-get update

The try installing your software again.

[kabir96]

Hi, and welcome to Ubuntu and the forums!

Please open a terminal and type the following commands

sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt/archives/*
sudo apt-get update

The try installing your software again.

thank you for your reply but i am stuck with the same error message again
i dont know what to do ?
please help

khan@khan-GA-73VM-S2:~$ sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt/archives/*
[sudo] password for khan:
khan@khan-GA-73VM-S2:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com oneiric InRelease
Hit http://extras.ubuntu.com oneiric Release.gpg
Ign http://in.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric InRelease

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Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en
Fetched 2,823 B in 49710d 1h 1min 19s (0 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
khan@khan-GA-73VM-S2:~$ sudo apt-get install synaptic
sudo: timestamp too far in the future: Mar 21 01:27:53 2012
[sudo] password for khan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libept1
Suggested packages:
dwww menu deborphan
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libept1 synaptic
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,284 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,549 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libept1 i386 1.0.5build1 [134 kB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe synaptic i386 0.75.2ubuntu8 [2,150 kB]
Fetched 2,284 kB in 39s (58.3 kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libept1.
(Reading database ... 30%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'liboil0.3' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
khan@khan-GA-73VM-S2:~$

[kabir96]

its just giving me a message

Selecting previously deselected package libept1.
(Reading database ... 30%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'liboil0.3' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

for every application i try to install or uninstall i get the same message

[cortman]

Run

sudo apt-get install -f

And post the results.

[kabir96]

this is the result:

khan@khan-GA-73VM-S2:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for khan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
khan@khan-GA-73VM-S2:~$

[kabir96]

Run

sudo apt-get install -f

And post the results.

this is the result:

khan@khan-GA-73VM-S2:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for khan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
khan@khan-GA-73VM-S2:~$

[kabir96]

Please open a terminal and type the following commands

i tried that and still the same message :


Selecting previously deselected package libept1.
(Reading database ... 30%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'liboil0.3' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

[cortman]

Ok, in that case it looks like the script given in the first post of this thread fixed that problem for others. Copy the script code into a text file and save it as listfix.py. Then open a terminal and type

chmod +x listfix.py
python listfix.py

[raja.genupula]

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo apt-get update

and try again