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I haven't been able to update of late. The details are as follows:

installArchives() failed: Preconfiguring packages ...
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(Reading database ... 95%%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 files list file for package 'dropbox' is missing final newline
Error in function:

If I remove Dropbox, will I be able to update and subsequently reinstall Dropbox? I would note that none of the updates mention Dropbox, if that makes a difference.

I have checked the following question but was hesitant to follow the suggestions because I don't want an unintentional upgrade to 12.10:

Any help would be appreciated.

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Instead of trying to uninstall dropbox I would try the following, one at a time

  1. sudo apt-get install -f
  2. Open Software sources find the dropbox lines under the Other Software tab and disable them. Then try sudo apt-get update.
  3. If this fails too, then try sudo apt-get install -f again with the dropbox ppa diabled.
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I think you would be able to uninstall Dropbox (sudo apt-get remove dropbox from a terminal session) and reinstall easily.

Edit:

There is also some that suggest to remove the dropbox.list (assuming that is what the package is called) from /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and then do an apt-get update; apt-get remove dropbox.

Here's an article that I found on the Mint forums about this:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=109725&f=34

Here's another article with similar issue (error code 1) and it recommends several steps that appear to be safe as well:

trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/opencv_haartraining', which is also in package libopencv2.3-bin 2.3.1+svn6514+branch23-12~oneiric

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