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From: Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject: dpkg error, what to do about it?
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 11:22:30 +0000
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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.

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Chris Green
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