Re: broken pipe
--- osirus@cadvision.com wrote:
> 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..
Looks like the file is broken nonetheless. Try re-downloading it.
Why don't you use apt-get? It makes like so much easier.
Michel
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