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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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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.raspberry-pi

On 25/01/2025 11:22, Chris Green wrote:

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.

Looks to me like an error in the package files.

"files list file for package 'libasyncns0:arm64' is missing final newline"

Seems pretty conclusive

Contact the upstream maintainer
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Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

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.

The fix turns out to be fairly simple. You go and find the file which
has the missing newline (probably due to an interrupted download or
some such) and remove it. The dpkg files in question are in directory /var/lib/dpkg/info. Once removed simply 'apt reinstall' the package
and all is well again.

I found the solution on an ubuntu list.
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Chris Green
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