Can't install Thunderbird on Feisty x86-32

[Liam Proven]

On 03/05/07, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> Doesn't matter whether I use apt-get or Synaptic, it complains that
> there's a corrupt package.
>
> I'm trying to install Thunderbird 2.0 but I need 1.5 from the repos
> first to fulfil some dependencies and so on.
>
> I'm using the main UK archives:
>
> http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
>
> Any ideas, anyone? Could the file in the repository be corrupt? I've
> tried rummaging around using a web browser in the repo itself but I
> can't find where the packages themselves live, only the various
> summary and index files.
>
> This is the actual error text:
>
> # apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Suggested packages:
>   mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind mozilla-thunderbird-inspector
>   mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail
> The following NEW packages will be installed
>   mozilla-thunderbird
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/10.9MB of archives.
> After unpacking 30.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 123184 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking mozilla-thunderbird (from
> .../mozilla-thunderbird_1.5.0.10-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-thunderbird_1.5.0.10-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-thunderbird_1.5.0.10-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Now rectified by doing

    apt-cache clean
    apt-cache autoclean

and trying again.

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