Comment 9 for bug 1356743

Hello,

I did try both sudos (twice, actually) but it does absolutely nothing. I
got no message at all from the terminal afterwards and Synaptic still
doesn't manage to reinstall or update netcat packages, always with the
same message :
Lecture de la base de données... 95%dpkg : erreur fatale irréversible,
abandon :
la liste des fichiers pour le paquet « netcat-traditional » n'a pas de
retour à la ligne en fin de fichier

I wonder if I just shouldn't reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 from scratch...

Le vendredi 22 août 2014 à 15:15 +0000, Serge Hallyn a écrit :

> The "Status: purge ok installed" on the three netcat packages is not
> right. Could you please try:
>
> sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.orig
> sudo sed -i 's/purge ok installed/install ok installed/' /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> and see if that helps? Hopefully that is the only error and you can
> proceed after that, but there could be more corruption after that.
>