Troubleshooting ubuntu: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package ‘linux-generic’ is missing final newline Rumi, September 15, 2023 If you ever encounter with such similar of an error (in my case it occurred on my Ubuntu 20 distro), you may apply the following process to get a fix. The error: Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Calculating upgrade… Done The following packages will… Continue Reading