[orca-list] Notification messages, and lots of errors from apt-get and dpkg

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

Two questions...

First, I'm getting notifications from the system: one about updates being 
ready to install, and another about an app that has crashed. How do I 
investigate this? Where is the notification panel or whatever its called?

NExt, when trying to update firefox, I get many packages listed which are no 
longer needed. It suggests doing apt-get autoremove to remove them. when I 
do this, I get errors about missing newlines in package files, etc.  Here is 
the terminal log:

Script started on Wed 11 Feb 2009 10:24:04 PM EST
]0;rjc intrepid: ~rjc intrepid:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox
[sudo] password for rjc:

Reading package lists... 0%

Reading package lists... 0%

Reading package lists... 7%

Reading package lists... Done


Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree


Reading state information... 0%

Reading state information... 0%

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
  python-gtk2-dev libstdc++6-4.3-dev libpopt-dev liborbit2-dev 
python-gtk2-doc
  libsm-dev libice-dev x11proto-xext-dev libatk1.0-dev debhelper
  intltool-debian x11proto-kb-dev libglib2.0-dev gnome-pkg-tools
  x11proto-xinerama-dev libpango1.0-dev g++-4.3 x11proto-render-dev
  docbook-xsl libxi-dev libxrender-dev po-debconf libatspi-dev libcairo2-dev
  python-dev libxdmcp-dev g++ python2.5-dev libffi-dev libpng12-dev cdbs
  libfontconfig1-dev python-pyorbit-dev libmail-sendmail-perl
  x11proto-record-dev x11proto-composite-dev xtrans-dev x11proto-core-dev
  libxcursor-dev libbonobo2-dev fdupes x11proto-randr-dev 
x11proto-damage-dev
  libxcb-render-util0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libxext-dev docbook-xsl-doc-html
  libxdamage-dev zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev x11proto-input-dev libidl-dev
  libfreetype6-dev x11proto-fixes-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev libxau-dev
  dpkg-dev libpthread-stubs0 libxcomposite-dev libxrandr-dev libexpat1-dev
  html2text libpixman-1-dev libxft-dev libx11-dev libxcb-xlib0-dev
  python-gnome2-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxfixes-dev orbit2 libxcb1-dev
  libxinerama-dev libxtst-dev libsys-hostname-long-perl python-gobject-dev
  build-essential
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  firefox
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/68.9kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.


Selecting previously deselected package firefox.
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1_all.deb 
(--unpack):
 files list file for package `libgpod-common' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1_all.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
]0;rjc intrepid: ~rjc intrepid:~$ sudo apt-get install firefox

]0;rjc intrepid: ~rjc intrepid:~$ sudo apt-get remove firefox

Reading package lists... 0%

Reading package lists... 0%

Reading package lists... 7%

Reading package lists... Done


Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree


Reading state information... 0%

Reading state information... 0%

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
  python-gtk2-dev libstdc++6-4.3-dev libpopt-dev liborbit2-dev 
python-gtk2-doc
  libsm-dev libice-dev x11proto-xext-dev libatk1.0-dev debhelper
  intltool-debian x11proto-kb-dev libglib2.0-dev gnome-pkg-tools
  x11proto-xinerama-dev libpango1.0-dev g++-4.3 x11proto-render-dev
  docbook-xsl libxi-dev libxrender-dev po-debconf libatspi-dev libcairo2-dev
  python-dev libxdmcp-dev g++ python2.5-dev libffi-dev libpng12-dev cdbs
  libfontconfig1-dev python-pyorbit-dev libmail-sendmail-perl
  x11proto-record-dev x11proto-composite-dev xtrans-dev x11proto-core-dev
  libxcursor-dev libbonobo2-dev fdupes x11proto-randr-dev 
x11proto-damage-dev
  libxcb-render-util0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libxext-dev docbook-xsl-doc-html
  libxdamage-dev zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev x11proto-input-dev libidl-dev
  libfreetype6-dev x11proto-fixes-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev libxau-dev
  dpkg-dev libpthread-stubs0 libxcomposite-dev libxrandr-dev libexpat1-dev
  html2text libpixman-1-dev libxft-dev libx11-dev libxcb-xlib0-dev
  python-gnome2-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxfixes-dev orbit2 libxcb1-dev
  libxinerama-dev libxtst-dev libsys-hostname-long-perl python-gobject-dev
  build-essential
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  firefox
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
After this operation, 127kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y


(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing firefox (--remove):
 files list file for package `libgpod-common' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
 firefox
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
]0;rjc intrepid: ~rjc intrepid:~$ exit
exit

Script done on Wed 11 Feb 2009 10:25:39 PM EST