From ubuntu-users  Thu Nov 04 20:52:01 2004
From: mdz () canonical ! com (Matt Zimmerman)
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 20:52:01 +0000
To: ubuntu-users
Subject: Perl security update
Message-Id: <20041104205200.GG5253 () alcor ! net>
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 07:24:20PM +0100, Thomas Satzinger wrote:

> i tried to install the perl update, but it fails with the following
> message:
> 
> (Lese Datenbank ... dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten
> von /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-modules_5.8.4-2ubuntu0.1_all.deb
> (--unpack):
>  files list file for package `acroread-plugin' is missing final newline
> 
> 
> Any ideas?

The package database on your system has been corrupted.

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 - mdz