Can't update software with Update Manager due to telepathy-butterfly

Question

When I try to update my Ubuntu 11.10 I get this message after downloading everything "The installation or removal of a software package failed.

installArchives() failed: (Reading database ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 files list file for package 'telepathy-butterfly' is missing final newline
Error in function: "

Answer 1

Try this: open a Terminal and try the following commands:

sudo apt-get install -f

And then afterwards, if successful, try

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

If these don't work, consider removing the offending package

sudo apt-get remove telepathy-butterfly

and if you wish, try to reinstall it

sudo apt-get install telepathy-butterfly

Hope this helps.