Bug#364307: gnome-desktop-data: Failed to upgrade package using apt-get or dpkg

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi,

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006, Alexandre Norman wrote:
> noodle:/tmp# dpkg -i gnome-desktop-data_2.14.0-1_all.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package gnome-desktop-data.
> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
> gnome-desktop-data_2.14.0-1_all.deb (--install):
>  files list file for package `gnome-desktop-data' contains empty filename

 You can try the --force switch, or use "ar" to decompress the package
 manually until you at least restore the file list:
    ar t foo.deb
    ar x foo.deb data.tar.gz
    etc.

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
"You can gtk_main_run, but you can't gtk_widget_hide." --danw, 19-jul-04