Introducing myself

[jims424]

Hi forum, I am a retired engineer. I am slowly trying to learn how to administrate my small home Ubuntu, Debian, and WinXP network. My son setup this network and is now off at college so I am in sink or swim mode. My present problem is the Ubuntu install did not configure the wireless card on my Dell Vostro 1500. Therefore I tried to install wlassistant with "apt-get install". The install failed so I have been trying to remove it even using "dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq". This problem is getting in the way of trying to do installation of other applications.
Below is the response to my request to "apt-get remove wlassistant":

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
menu libarts1c2a kdelibs4c2a libartsc0 kdelibs-data kdebase-data liblualib50 kicker libkonq4
libavahi-qt3-1 libqt3-mt liblua50 libaudio2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
wlassistant
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
After this operation, 705kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing wlassistant (--remove):
files list file for package `wlassistant' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
wlassistant
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

My attempt to use dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq seems to be a syntax problem.
My Google search for syntax clues on it, lead me here. Anyway, can someone give me direction to clear this problem?

[L4Linux]

Type in terminal:

sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get remove wlassistant

[jims424]

Thanks L4LINUX, that did something, it at least changed the error report. This is what I get now.
root@laptop:/home/jim# apt-get clean all
root@laptop:/home/jim# apt-get remove wlassistant
Reading package lists... Done
Segmentation faulty tree... 50%

Then it returned the command prompt. I am new to this but this seems to say to me it had more trouble than it could resolve. Is that true? Is there a quick test to see if it did remove the application, something like an "lsmod" perhaps?

[questio verum]

Hello, jims424...

Welcome to Linuxforums!

qv