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I'm pretty sure this has something to do with corruption as my drive was corrupted just a few days ago but I managed to fix it.

The error occurs when I try to download or update anything, for example if i try to run sudo apt upgrade I get this.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'linux-generic' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package 'libxapian30:amd64' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

By the way im on pop os 22.04, jammy.

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The files list for this package is broken anyway, you can delete it, which brings the package back into warning: files list file for package … is missing state, which is just a warning.

The files list is in /var/lib/dpkg/info/libxapian30:amd64.list, just delete that file.

Then, reinstall all packages that dpkg complains about, using apt reinstall linux-generic libxapian30.

In your case, I'd use apt reinstall ~i though -- reinstall all installed packages, that will rewrite all files and refresh all package information.

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