Re: How to fix corrupted download

[Pietro Cagnoni <pcagnoni@mclink.net>]

> Is there an easy way to force apt to download a deb again?  I seem to have got a corrupted one:
> 
> (Reading database ... 131943 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace xfonts-75dpi 4.1.0-5 (using .../xfonts-75dpi_4.1.0-6_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement xfonts-75dpi ...
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> dpkg: error processing /usr/var/apt/archives/xfonts-75dpi_4.1.0-6_all.deb (--unpack):
> 
> I think it's just my download, not the version on the server, that's corrupt.

use 'apt-get clean' to remove the cached deb files,
then use 'apt-get install ...' again.

hope this helps.

pietro.