Re: dpkg errors following a clean install.

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From	Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz>
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Subject	Re: dpkg errors following a clean install.
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On 2025-08-27, pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:
> For the last 4 months I have relied on a 16 year old machine for
> communication.
>
> Having got my main machine to work, the old one collapsed or rather the
> hard drive did. I decided to restore it using another drive.
>
> Not so easy.
>
> I had trouble getting the machine to boot on a Mint 22.1 installation
> flash drive, then another, then a DVD and finally one of my oldest
> flash drives.
>
> But when I tried to update it in order to indstall Synaptic, I kept
> running into errors. 
>
> I tried everythging I could find on the WWW but so far nothing has worked.
>
> The last attempt ended with this:
>
> dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
>  files list file for package 'gnome-accessibility-themes' is missing final newline
>
> $ find . -name gnome-accessibility-themes
> just returns to the prompt, so it is not a file.
>
As your were trying to boot off old hardware I would enter the possibility
that it was the USB socket which was not working.

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dpkg errors following a clean install. pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> - 2025-08-27 21:12 +0100
  Re: dpkg errors following a clean install. Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2025-08-27 13:33 -0700
  Re: dpkg errors following a clean install. Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2025-08-27 13:41 -0700
    Re: dpkg errors following a clean install. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-27 19:06 -0400
  Re: dpkg errors following a clean install. Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> - 2025-08-27 22:18 +0000
    Re: dpkg errors following a clean install. Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-29 12:56 +1000
  Re: dpkg errors following a clean install. Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-28 04:25 +0000
    Re: dpkg errors following a clean install. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-08-28 03:02 -0400
      Re: dpkg errors following a clean install. Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-28 07:28 +0000

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