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 > :)
