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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.
>
The fix turns out to be fairly simple.  You go and find the file which
has the missing newline (probably due to an interrupted download or
some such) and remove it.  The dpkg files in question are in directory
/var/lib/dpkg/info.  Once removed simply 'apt reinstall' the package
and all is well again.

I found the solution on an ubuntu list.

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Chris Green
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