Re: gzip and dpkg problem

[Alexander Goldstein <agoldste@eecs.uic.edu>]

On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, llucius wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Paul Schoenly wrote:
> 
> > 
> > $ dpkg --install package_x.deb
> >    .
> >    gzip:stdout: Broken pipe
> >    dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
> >    dpkg: error processing package_x.deb (--install)
> >     subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
> >    Errors were encountered... (and so on)
> > 
> I've recently started asking about this too.  I figured that it was only
> my setup (I'm running Linux/68k), but other people have also said that
> there is problems with similar setups to yours.  
> 

I also often have the same problem sometimes (with some packages).  It
only happens when su-ing to root.  To bypass it, I just login directly as
root on a VC.  I have 1.1 system and it happened with all versions of dpkg
including as far way back as .96R6.