I tried to install a package and it did, and it appears to work just fine. However when I installed it I got several warnings about packages being missing.
dpkg: warning files list file for package '...' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
Since it is just a warning and it appears to work anyway, I assumed that it doesn't matter, but I would like someone to confirm that.
The packages that are missing are ones that I uninstalled on purpose because they were non-essential and took up a lot of room.
EDIT: Package is tzdata. Using dpkg -i
on a .deb
file to install. And the above is essentially the entire warning. Just instead of ... it lists packages. python2.7-minimal
, libsqlite3-0
, libaprutill-dbd-sqlite3
, python-minimal`
EDIT: "What exactly did you do?" I ran the command
dpkg -i tzdata_2017b-2_all.deb
to install the package tzdata.
"What did you want to achieve?" I wanted the package to install.
"What happened instead? Did you encounter any warning or error messages?" The package installed and worked fine. However, the above warning appeared for the above packages.
I cannot copy and paste since this is occurring on a separate server. But I will rewrite it here:
dpkg: warning files list file for package python2.7-minimal missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: warning files list file for package libsqlite3-0 missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: warning files list file for package libaprutill-dbd-sqlite3, assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: warning files list file for package python-minimal, assuming package has no files currently installed.
I am not looking for a fix. I am just curious if dpkg giving me a warning in this type of situation actually matters. Again the program works anyway and nothing else on my system needed those packages.
dpkg
doesn't know about itapt
, then downloaded a newer version as a.deb
file and useddpkg -i
to install. Since I don't want to re-install the previous version just to clear a warning, I saw another answer that eluded to.list
files in the/var/lib/dpkg
directory and found some under the subdirectoryinfo
related to LibreOffice. Now I'm just wondering if removing those will clear the issue, or will it disrupt my ability to usedpkg -r
to remove the current version?