[Ubuntu-BD] Installing Pidgin 2.6.3 showing broken package

Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor zombiegenerator at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 07:54:18 BST 2009


Hi,

I am a getdeb.net fan. I generally don't wanna compile things which I can  
get there precompiled. A week ago I downloaded pidgin's latest version  
2.6.3 from there. There was instruction to remove the package pidgin  
before installing this new package. But I accidentally removed the whole  
pidgin. Now the problem I am facing is:

**I've gathered (libpurple0_2.6.3-1~getdeb1_i386.deb     
pidgin-data_2.6.3-1~getdeb1_all.deb
libpurple-bin_2.6.3-1~getdeb1_all.deb  pidgin-facebookchat-1.60.deb
pidgin_2.6.3-1~getdeb1_i386.deb) files in a folder

**When ever I applied the command "sudo dpkg -i *.deb" in the folder it's  
showing:

nirjhor at nirjhor-laptop ~/Pidgin $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
(Reading database ... 149136 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libpurple0 1:2.6.3-1~getdeb1 (using  
libpurple0_2.6.3-1~getdeb1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libpurple0 ...
Preparing to replace libpurple-bin 1:2.6.3-1~getdeb1 (using  
libpurple-bin_2.6.3-1~getdeb1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libpurple-bin ...
Selecting previously deselected package pidgin.
Unpacking pidgin (from pidgin_2.6.3-1~getdeb1_i386.deb) ...
Preparing to replace pidgin-data 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.4 (using  
pidgin-data_2.6.3-1~getdeb1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement pidgin-data ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to write to pipe  
in copy)
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing pidgin-data_2.6.3-1~getdeb1_all.deb (--install):
  short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during  
`./usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin.mo')
Preparing to replace pidgin-facebookchat 1.60 (using  
pidgin-facebookchat-1.60.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement pidgin-facebookchat ...
Setting up libpurple0 (1:2.6.3-1~getdeb1) ...

Setting up libpurple-bin (1:2.6.3-1~getdeb1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pidgin:
  pidgin depends on pidgin-data (>= 1:2.6.3); however:
   Version of pidgin-data on system is 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.4.
dpkg: error processing pidgin (--install):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up pidgin-facebookchat (1.60) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
  pidgin-data_2.6.3-1~getdeb1_all.deb
  pidgin


**I tried to apply "sudo apt-get -f install" but that removes the  
application Pidgin.

What should I do?



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