Thanks! It worked. On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkvUt1AACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ/N3gCeLuCCVOsEKQYigLdNSH7rUDQd > RRgAn0LvRpc8sWawR89dF1ReYAuxX3MH > =eYRI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
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