Re: kernel, libncurses4-dev_4.2-3.2.deb, and all kinds of fun.
This is just a guess: Are you sure your FTP program is in binary mode?
That may sound silly, but I've made the mistake of being in ASCII mode a
few times myself.
Hope this helps,
Patrick
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Cheshire wrote:
> won't work so I've downloaded the potato version. A lot of times. On the
> ftp the file is listed as 511408 bytes, and every time I download it I
> end up with a 511405 byte file. It's the only thing I can think of, with
> my limited experience, that results in this error when trying to install
> it:
>
> # dpkg -i libncurses4-dev_4.2-3.2.deb
> (Reading database ... 17235 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libncurses4-dev (from libncurses4-dev_4.2-3.2.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing libncurses4-dev_4.2-3.2.deb (--install):
> corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> libncurses4-dev_4.2-3.2.deb
>
> Can someone please help? I promise, last question this weekend, honest
> :)
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