On 21/12/14 19:36, Allan Duncan wrote:
The man page talks about not showing files created by maintainer scripts, which may be the case. The file I am chasing is: /var/lib/dpkg/info/hicolor-icon-theme.postinst
That file you are chasing is *part* of the package's scripts, which doesn't appear in `dpkg -L` lists at all. You should simply reinstall the package if you can -- `apt-get --reinstall install hicolor-icon-theme`. In case that doesn't work, and that file doesn't exist, just make it a dummy script: $ echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexit 0' > /var/lib/dpkg/info/hicolor-icon-theme.postinst $ chmod +x /var/lib/dpkg/info/hicolor-icon-theme.postinst ...and try to reinstall the package once again. Apologies if I've misread anything as your question didn't make 100% clear exactly what the problem was.