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   The Natural Philosopher to Chris Green   
   Re: dpkg error, what to do about it?   
   25 Jan 25 12:18:39   
   
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   On 25/01/2025 11:22, Chris Green wrote:   
   > I just installed pigpiod in a Pi 4B and got the following error:-   
   >   
   >      root@homepi# apt install pigpiod   
   >      Reading package lists... Done   
   >      Building dependency tree... Done   
   >      Reading state information... Done   
   >      The following additional packages will be installed:   
   >        libpigpio1   
   >      The following NEW packages will be installed:   
   >        libpigpio1 pigpiod   
   >      0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.   
   >      Need to get 99.4 kB of archives.   
   >      After this operation, 331 kB of additional disk space will be used.   
   >      Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y   
   >      Get:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bookworm/main arm64   
   >      libpigpio1 arm64 1.79-1+rpt1 [89.2 kB]   
   >      Get:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bookworm/main arm64   
   >      pigpiod arm64 1.79-1+rpt1 [10.3 kB]   
   >      Fetched 99.4 kB in 0s (800 kB/s)   
   >      Selecting previously unselected package libpigpio1.   
   >      dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:   
   >       files list file for package 'libasyncns0:arm64' is missing final   
   >      newline   
   >      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)   
   >      root@homepi#   
   >   
   > That looks a bit worrying.  It feels as if maybe some sort of clear   
   > out and re-installation might clear things up, but I'm not quite sure   
   > what.   
   >   
   Looks to me like an error in the package  files.   
      
   "files list file for package 'libasyncns0:arm64' is missing final newline"   
      
   Seems pretty conclusive   
      
   Contact the upstream maintainer   
      
      
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