Try installing gzip from the binary distro ('sudo apt-get install gzip')
On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 11:25, John Marra wrote:
> Yes, I've got two zero-length files for gunzip and gzip. I just saw the
> message from Alexander about problems in upgrading tar. Looks to be the
> problem I'm having. Doing: "% fink reinstall gzip" is hanging at curl.
>
> John
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 08:03 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
> > John Marra wrote:
> > []
> >> dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-
> >> powerpc/x11/xaw3d_1.5-3_darwin-powerpc.deb
> >> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> >> dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-
> >> powerpc/x11/xaw3d_1.5-3_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
> >> subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
> >
> > Maybe Alexander's suspicious mind is closer on the trail here, and you
> > are another victim of the Big Bad File Eater (TM). Try
> >
> > cd /sw/bin
> > ls -l *tar *zip*
> >
> > You should get a list of files containing at least something like
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root unknown 37296 Mar 31 16:55 bunzip2
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root unknown 37296 Mar 31 16:55 bzip2
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root unknown 14608 Mar 31 16:55 bzip2recover
> > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root unknown 4 Aug 28 14:59 gnutar -> gtar
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root unknown 542856 Aug 9 00:00 gtar
> > -rwxr-xr-x 3 root unknown 70036 Apr 3 20:51 gunzip
> > -rwxr-xr-x 3 root unknown 70036 Apr 3 20:51 gzip
> > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root unknown 4 Aug 28 14:59 tar -> gtar
> >
> > The suspicion is that you have some files of length zero in this list.
> > If this is true, then for a first fix, remove these zero-length files.
> > Then dpkg -i should work again. You can then reinstall the packages
> > these zero-length files belonged to.
> >
> > -- Martin
> >
> >
>
>
>
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