can't remove broken package

From: Martens, Brendan (bmartens_at_cityofevanston.org)
Date: 03/15/05

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    Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:06:02 -0600
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    I downloaded an RPM and used alien to turn it into ad .deb, now however
    I cannot get rid of it, and it is causing errors in dpkg. dpkg, in fact
    wont do anything, here is an example:

    44 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0B/27.6MB of archives.
    After unpacking 1483kB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
    Preconfiguring packages ...
    (Reading database ... dpkg: error
    processing /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.3-30.10_i386.deb
    (--unpack):
     files list file for package `fslint' contains empty filename
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.3-30.10_i386.deb
    Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    shrift:/home/kakashi#

    That is an example from an apt-get upgrade, I have tried removing that
    offending login.deb also, it doesnt help.

    shrift:/usr/src# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.11.3_Custom.2_i386.deb
    (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
    kernel-image-2.6.11.3_Custom.2_i386.deb (--install):
     files list file for package `fslint' contains empty filename
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     kernel-image-2.6.11.3_Custom.2_i386.deb
    Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
    shrift:/usr/src#

    There I was trying to install a kernel I compiled.

    Also, the program fslint will error if I do a dpkg -L on it, so I cant
    really figure out where it put itself.

    Any thoughts?

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