[orca-list] OT: More apt-get errors

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

This is what happens when I try and do apt-get autoremove  What does this 
mean?
This is a newly reconstituted vmware running Ubuntu 8.10 - latest updates as 
of aprox. last Thursday, Feb 12.

Thanx for any insight here...
-- Rich


Script Started:
]0;rjc intrepid: ~rjc intrepid:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove

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
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  build-essential cdbs debhelper docbook-xsl docbook-xsl-doc-html dpkg-dev
  fdupes g++ g++-4.3 gnome-pkg-tools html2text intltool-debian libatk1.0-dev
  libatspi-dev libbonobo2-dev libcairo2-dev libexpat1-dev libffi-dev
  libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev 
libice-dev
  libidl-dev libmail-sendmail-perl liborbit2-dev libpango1.0-dev
  libpixman-1-dev libpng12-dev libpopt-dev libpthread-stubs0
  libpthread-stubs0-dev libsm-dev libstdc++6-4.3-dev 
libsys-hostname-long-perl
  libx11-dev libxau-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-render0-dev
  libxcb-xlib0-dev libxcb1-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev 
libxdamage-dev
  libxdmcp-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev 
libxinerama-dev
  libxml2-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxtst-dev orbit2 po-debconf
  python-dev python-gnome2-dev python-gobject-dev python-gtk2-dev
  python-gtk2-doc python-pyorbit-dev python2.5-dev x11proto-composite-dev
  x11proto-core-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-fixes-dev 
x11proto-input-dev
  x11proto-kb-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-record-dev x11proto-render-dev
  x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev xtrans-dev zlib1g-dev
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 76 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
After this operation, 107MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y


(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing build-essential (--remove):
 files list file for package `libgpod-common' is missing final newline
dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:265: process_queue: Assertion `!queue.length' 
failed.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
]0;rjc intrepid: ~rjc intrepid:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to 
correct the problem.
]0;rjc intrepid: ~rjc intrepid:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
]0;rjc intrepid: ~rjc intrepid:~$ sudo 
dpkg --configure -aapt-get autoremove

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
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  build-essential cdbs debhelper docbook-xsl docbook-xsl-doc-html dpkg-dev
  fdupes g++ g++-4.3 gnome-pkg-tools html2text intltool-debian libatk1.0-dev
  libatspi-dev libbonobo2-dev libcairo2-dev libexpat1-dev libffi-dev
  libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev 
libice-dev
  libidl-dev libmail-sendmail-perl liborbit2-dev libpango1.0-dev
  libpixman-1-dev libpng12-dev libpopt-dev libpthread-stubs0
  libpthread-stubs0-dev libsm-dev libstdc++6-4.3-dev 
libsys-hostname-long-perl
  libx11-dev libxau-dev libxcb-render-util0-dev libxcb-render0-dev
  libxcb-xlib0-dev libxcb1-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev 
libxdamage-dev
  libxdmcp-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev 
libxinerama-dev
  libxml2-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxtst-dev orbit2 po-debconf
  python-dev python-gnome2-dev python-gobject-dev python-gtk2-dev
  python-gtk2-doc python-pyorbit-dev python2.5-dev x11proto-composite-dev
  x11proto-core-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-fixes-dev 
x11proto-input-dev
  x11proto-kb-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-record-dev x11proto-render-dev
  x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev xtrans-dev zlib1g-dev
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 76 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
After this operation, 107MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y


(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing build-essential (--remove):
 files list file for package `libgpod-common' is missing final newline
dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:265: process_queue: Assertion `!queue.length' 
failed.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
]0;rjc intrepid: ~rjc intrepid:~$ # ...
]0;rjc intrepid: ~rjc intrepid:~$ exit
exit

Script done.