apt-get error

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On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Anyone know what to do about this error?
>
> # apt-get install build-essential
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   build-essential
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/6826B of archives.
> After unpacking 49.2kB of additional disk space will be used.
> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/build-essential_11.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  files list file for package `subversion' contains empty filename
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/build-essential_11.1_i386.deb
> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> This is on Ubuntu 6.06. My knowledge of apt-get and family isn't very
> deep. I tried 'apt-get clean' and it didn't help. I get this error about
> 'subversion' no matter what I try to install or remove. Tried to remove
> and re-install subversion but get the same.

Google says:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=308727
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-12737.html
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22files+list+file+for+package%22+%22contains+empty+filename%22&btnG=Google+Search

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