broken pipe

[osirus@cadvision.com]

In attempting to dpkg -i libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb, the current potato
libgtk, I'm getting the following:

dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
dpkg: error processing libgtk1.2_1.2.6-1.deb) ...
 subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2

Could someone please clue me in to as to why this is happening? When the
file was originally downloaded it stopped 6 bytes short, which I in turn
did a 'reget' for and it is now complete as far as I can tell. Thanks in
advance..

-cheshire