The installation or removal of a software package failed.

[qasibeat]

Package Operation Failed
The installation or removal of a software package failed.


installArchives() failed: (Reading database ... (Reading database ... 5% (Reading database ... 10% (Reading database ... 15% (Reading database ... 20% (Reading database ... 25% (Reading database ... 30% (Reading database ... 35% (Reading database ... 40% (Reading database ... 45% (Reading database ... 50% (Reading database ... 55% (Reading database ... 60% (Reading database ... 65% (Reading database ... 70% (Reading database ... 75% (Reading database ... 80% (Reading database ... 85% (Reading database ... 90% (Reading database ... 95% (Reading database ... 100% (Reading database ... 125853 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.12.1-0ubuntu6 (using .../libc6-dev_2.12.1-0ubuntu10.2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): data: internal gzip read error: '<fd:0>: invalid block type'
dpkg-deb: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.12.1-0ubuntu10.2_i386.deb (--unpack):
short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/xen/libc.a'
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.12.1-0ubuntu10.2_i386.deb
Setting up libc6 (2.12.1-0ubuntu10.2) ...
Generating locales...
en_AG.UTF-8... done
en_AU.UTF-8... done
en_BW.UTF-8... done
en_CA.UTF-8... done
en_DK.UTF-8... done
en_GB.UTF-8... done
en_HK.UTF-8... done
en_IE.UTF-8... done
en_IN.UTF-8... done
en_NG.UTF-8... done
en_NZ.UTF-8... done
en_PH.UTF-8... done
en_SG.UTF-8... done
en_US.UTF-8... done
en_ZA.UTF-8... done
en_ZW.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
i am trying to fix this problem on ubunto 10 10, but when it goes to repair, it gives the above error
please help me on this.

[tommcd]

What commands are you running when you get these errors?
Did you do a clean install of Ubuntu 10.10? Or was this a dist-upgrade from a previous Ubuntu install?
Are you using any third party repositories? This includes those all too problematic PPA repos.
Post your /etc/apt/sources.list.
Also post the contents of any files in your /etc/apt/sources.d/ directory.


i am trying to fix this problem on ubunto 10 10, but when it goes to repair, it gives the above error
please help me on this.
What exactly have you done to try to fix this?
Please provide as much detail as you can.
This looks a problem with upgrading libc6, which is a library that a great many things depend on.

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