[tick2]

Hi. I ran sudo apt-get install xbmc and I get an error saying: /var/cache/apt/archives/libenca0_1.9-6_i386.deb: files list file for package `libfftw3-3' contains empty filename

The full story is below and the error is in bold, any ideas?

nate@nate-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install xbmc
[sudo] password for nate:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.27-7 linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libenca0 libfaac0 liblzo1 libsdl-gfx1.2-4 libsdl-sound1.2 pmount
python-sqlite python2.4 python2.4-minimal xbmc-common xbmc-skin-pm3-hd
xbmc-web-pm3
Suggested packages:
cryptsetup python-sqlite-dbg python2.4-doc python-profiler
xbmc-third-parties xbmc-test-helper
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libenca0 libfaac0 liblzo1 libsdl-gfx1.2-4 libsdl-sound1.2 pmount
python-sqlite python2.4 python2.4-minimal xbmc xbmc-common xbmc-skin-pm3-hd
xbmc-web-pm3
0 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/77.3MB of archives.
After this operation, 185MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
xbmc-common xbmc-skin-pm3-hd xbmc-web-pm3 xbmc
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libenca0_1.9-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
files list file for package `libfftw3-3' contains empty filename
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libenca0_1.9-6_i386.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[althekiller]

Weird, try apt-get update to make sure your cache is in check. You might check the ubuntu/debian forums to see if there are some other common causes of that error.

[tick2]

Hey thanks for the response althekiller.

Did some research on the internet and it looks like I have some corrupt files in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/

Here is a good link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...bug/108189

So basically, I'm in deep you know what....At this point I can say that this isn't an issue related to xbmc, so this thread can be closed.

I'll report back if I get this fixed.