Dependencies fail to install, cannot install picamera on pi3

Question

When I run apt-get install python3-picamera it fails with different dependency issues like:
files list file for package 'libparams-util-perl' is missing final newline

or

files list file for package ''libpam0g-dev.' is missing final newline

I've run sudo apt update; and sudo apt upgrade but neither seem to help.

I also read to delete the entries for the corresponding packages, and reinstall them in /var/lib/dpkg/<package> but that doesn't seem to work either.

Can someone please help?

amorimph · Answer

Just checking, have you tried installing it as superuser?

sudo apt-get install python3-picamera

Alternatively, are you sure you need this library? I've been programming my PiCamera on a RPi3 and didn't need to install any additional libraries. Have you tried just enabling the camera on Interfacing Options at:

sudo raspi-config

and running a simple example to see if it works?

Dependencies fail to install, cannot install picamera on pi3

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