apt-get install --reinstall libgdbm3 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/21.3kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgdbm3_1.8.3-2_i386.deb (--unpack): files list file for package `libgdbm3' contains empty filename Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libgdbm3_1.8.3-2_i386.deb Processing was halted because there were too many errors. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)