Re: How to fix corrupted download

[Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:21:17AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:04:44AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to force apt to download a deb again?
> 
> Yup.
> 
> > 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):
> 
> # rm /usr/var/apt/archives/xfonts-75dpi_4.1.0-6_all.deb
> # apt-get install xfonts-75dpi

Thanks, that fixed it.  I was concerned apt would lose track of what
was happening if I deleted the file, but it didn't.

Thanks to everyone for their help.

> 
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> have already won. - reverius

Good quote!