Dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'x'missing; assuming package has no files currently installed in Ubuntu 16.04

问题:

I am using Ubuntu 16.04 with lubunut desktop environment. I had the following problem for more than 3 days when I do apt-get upgrade. I don't know what is problem means and how to solve.

Note: 3 days before I try upgrade Linux-header-4.4.66, but it showed an error. I deleted it. Now, I'm back to Linux-header-4.4.64, which worked fine before.

Error on sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (only last 15 line of 500+ line error):  dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libxcb-xkb1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libvorbis-dev:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libavahi-core7:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed (Reading database ... 37151 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libgtk-3-bin_3.18.9-1ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb ... Adding 'diversion of /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches to /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2 by libgtk-3-bin' dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting '/usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2' with   different file '/usr/sbin/update-icon-caches', not allowed dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-bin_3.18.9-1ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb (--unpack):  subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing:  /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-bin_3.18.9-1ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 

回答1:

I solved this problem at last night. If you know Chinese, you can read this solution on my blog. I'll detail it here with my poor English.

• Create three files in you desktop or anywhere you want.

  fix.sh txt fixit.py 

• Add contents in these files

  1. fix.sh: Just an Empty file.

  2. txt: Copy your log into this file with '\n' to separate each line. Just like this:

     dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libxcb-xkb1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed  dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libvorbis-dev:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed 

  3. fixit.py: fill the file with the following contents.

     #!/usr/bin/env python     # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-     __author__ = 'Fitzeng'     import re     def main():         fix = open('fix.sh', 'w+')         for line in open("txt"):             pkg = re.match(re.compile('''dpkg: warning: files list file for package '(.+)' '''), line)             if pkg:                 cmd = "sudo apt-get install --reinstall " + pkg.group(1)                 fix.write(cmd + '\n')     if __name__ == "__main__":         main() 

• Execute these file.

  chmod 777 * python fixit.py ./fix.sh 

OK, problem solved. Actually, you'll find you could alternately just reinstall these packages. So, you can fix it in many ways.

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