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Everytime I want to install anything using sudo apt-get command I get this error:

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libargon2-1:armhf' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libaribb24-0:armhf' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package 'bind9-host' contains empty filename E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

How to get rid of this?

dpkg -a --configure does not work

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  • Do you meant apt-get? Or are you really leaving out the hyphen?
    – Seamus
    Commented May 25, 2020 at 23:52
  • Sorry, it's apt-get
    – Cimlah
    Commented May 26, 2020 at 10:29
  • try to run sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
    – kyjanond
    Commented Jun 16, 2020 at 13:54
  • @kyjanond As I've written in the post, dpkg --configure -a does not solve the problem.
    – Cimlah
    Commented Jun 16, 2020 at 17:31

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The error message indicates that there is a problem with the files list. The files list is updated with:

rpi ~$ sudo apt update

so this is the first you should do. And afterwards it is always a good idea to upgrade your installed software with:

rpi ~$ sudo apt full-upgrade

If this does not help you can try to completely reinitialize the files list.

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  • Doesn't work. The second option "reinitialising the files list" doesn't work either.
    – Cimlah
    Commented May 26, 2020 at 10:38
  • @Cimlah Seems it's a problem with dpkg itself. You may check with the debug option. Get help with dpkg --debug=help.
    – Ingo
    Commented May 26, 2020 at 12:02
  • Could you please expand your statement? I don't quite know how to solve the problem with just information given of using dpkg --debug=help
    – Cimlah
    Commented Jun 16, 2020 at 17:34

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