I had a power shortage and had to use fsck to restore some files to start my ubuntu 16.04 again.
Now when I want to install or update packages, I get an error and the process stops. It looks like the file list files may be corrupt.
Now, when I do apt-get upgrade
I get the next error:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list for package 'debianutils' is not a regular file
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
And a look at this file shows:
florian@PC15-085:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ ls debianutils.*
debianutils.md5sums debianutils.postinst debianutils.postrm
debianutils.list:
dependency_links.txt entry_points.txt PKG-INFO top_level.txt
debianutils.list is not a txt file, but kind of a directory. I dont know if this is supposed to be like this. I tried to use apt-get purge
and reinstall but then I get errors for packages with unmet dependencies.
How can I fix this?