Thanks!  It worked.

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Alexander Hansen
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 4/25/10 2:32 PM, katya Pertsova wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having problems installing tetex-texmf which might be corrupted (?).
>> I've tried updating the packages, running apt-get -f install and other
>> suggestions that I found in the archives, but
>> nothing seems to help.  Here's the message I get when trying to
>> install the binary:
>>
>> Reading Package Lists...
>> Building Dependency Tree...
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>   tetex-texmf
>> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
>> Need to get 0B/53.2MB of archives. After unpacking 364MB will be used.
>> (Reading database ... 45899 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Unpacking tetex-texmf (from .../tetex-texmf_3.0-2_darwin-i386.deb) ...
>> /sw/bin/dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to
>> write to pipe in copy)
>> /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2
>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing
>> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386/text/tetex-texmf_3.0-2_darwin-i386.deb
>> (--unpack):
>>  short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during
>> `./sw/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/antt/anttcbi.afm')
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>  /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386/text/tetex-texmf_3.0-2_darwin-i386.deb
>> E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>> I have recently upgraded Fink by trashing the previous version and
>> installing the new one from the disk image.   Is this at all relevant?
>
> Probably not.  What's generally more relevant is the OS version.
>
>> I'm really lost.  Would be grateful for any help.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Katya
>>
>
> When you said "trying to install the binary", did this mean that you
> downloaded the binary and put it in
> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386/text/ ?  What I've found
> by searching is that this error is associated with partial .deb files,
> and yours looks like it's not the right size:
>
> $ ls -lh
> /sw/fink.old/10.4/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/text/tetex-texmf_3.0-2_darwin-i386.deb
>
> - -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 142M 2009-06-03 14:21
> /sw/fink.old/10.4/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/text/tetex-texmf_3.0-2_darwin-i386.deb
>
> I'd suggest "fink rebuild tetex-texmf; fink install tetex-texmf".
> - --
> Alexander Hansen
> Fink User Liaison
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