Dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'x'missing; assuming package has no files currently installed in Ubuntu 16.04

问题

I am using Ubuntu 16.04 with lubunut desktop environment. I had the following problem for more than 3 days when I do apt-get upgrade. I don't know what is problem means and how to solve.

Note: 3 days before I try upgrade Linux-header-4.4.66, but it showed an error. I deleted it. Now, I'm back to Linux-header-4.4.64, which worked fine before.

Error on sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (only last 15 line of 500+ line error):

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libxcb-xkb1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libvorbis-dev:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libavahi-core7:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
(Reading database ... 37151 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libgtk-3-bin_3.18.9-1ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb ...
Adding 'diversion of /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches to /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2 by libgtk-3-bin'
dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting '/usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2' with
  different file '/usr/sbin/update-icon-caches', not allowed
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-bin_3.18.9-1ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-bin_3.18.9-1ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

回答1:

I solved this problem at last night. If you know Chinese, you can read this solution on my blog. I'll detail it here with my poor English.

Create three files in you desktop or anywhere you want.
```
fix.sh
txt
fixit.py
```

Add contents in these files

fix.sh: Just an Empty file.

txt: Copy your log into this file with '\n' to separate each line. Just like this:

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libxcb-xkb1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed 
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libvorbis-dev:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed

fixit.py: fill the file with the following contents.

#!/usr/bin/env python
    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
    __author__ = 'Fitzeng'
    import re
    def main():
        fix = open('fix.sh', 'w+')
        for line in open("txt"):
            pkg = re.match(re.compile('''dpkg: warning: files list file for package '(.+)' '''), line)
            if pkg:
                cmd = "sudo apt-get install --reinstall " + pkg.group(1)
                fix.write(cmd + '\n')
    if __name__ == "__main__":
        main()

Execute these file.
```
chmod 777 *
python fixit.py
./fix.sh
```

OK, problem solved. Actually, you'll find you could alternately just reinstall these packages. So, you can fix it in many ways.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42731637/dpkg-warning-files-list-file-for-package-xmissing-assuming-package-has-no-f

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