Package error.

[Jim Smith]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Jim Smith wrote:
>
>   
>> Has anyone else had the following error?
>>
>> E:
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-bin_4%3a3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy1_i386.deb:
>> corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
>>
>> This happened with the latest group of updates this afternoon. All of
>> them appeared to be for KDE. I don't run KDE normally but have it on
>> this system to test 4.1.
>>
>> Will this be corrected by the maintainers or is there something I should
>> do?
>>     
>
> Delete the .deb files in question, and re-update, or 
>
> # aptitude reinstall kdebase-bin
>
> etc.
>
> It's more likely to be a download error than a real package problem.
>   
I did those things: "sudo aptitude reinstall kdebase-bin" then re ran
the update and all was well. Thank you for the advice and I will save
your message in my special "ideas" folder for the next time.

Jim

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