dpkg: error: unable to create new file '/var/lib/dpkg/info/format-new': No such file or directory

Question

When I try to sudo apt-get upgrade I get:

Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: error: unable to create new file '/var/lib/dpkg/info/format-new': No such file or directory
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

What should I do to fix it?

Solution

Run this command to check if a file named format-new exists in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ :

ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/format-new

If format-new does not exist, create a new file named format-new in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ directory.

sudo touch /var/lib/dpkg/info/format-new  
sudo apt update  
sudo apt upgrade 

Comments

[Enrique Bozza Dutra]

Thanks, it worked. But another problem showed up. I'll edit the question.