Re: dpkg errors following a clean install.

From	Felix <none@not.here>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.mint
Subject	Re: dpkg errors following a clean install.
Date	2025-08-29 12:56 +1000
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Gordon wrote:
> 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.

he tried to install from a DVD also.  22.1 is for newer hardware, so I 
would try an earlier LM version.

-- 
Linux Mint 22.1

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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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