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Unknown user in statoverride file

Posted on September 18, 2016 - September 18, 2016 by Mr. Reboot

If you get this error in Debian/Ubuntu on apt-get install/upgrade etc:

dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 syntax error: unknown user 'user' in statoverride file

you can solve deleting ‘user’ in the statoverride file:

~ $ sed -i '/user/d' /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride

Now apt-get command should work fine.

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