The purpose of this paper is first to reformulate the fixed point theorem (see Theorem 1 of [J. Brzdȩk, J. Chudziak and Z. Páles,
A fixed point approach to stability of functional equations, Nonlinear Anal. 74 2011, 17, 6728–6732])
in β-Banach spaces. We also show that this theorem is a very efficient and convenient tool for proving the hyperstability results of the general linear equation in β-Banach spaces. Our main results state that, under some weak natural assumptions, functions satisfying the equation approximately (in some sense) must be actually solutions to it.