bigtel
December 9th, 2011, 08:16 PM
I have been getting the same error when I download a package (as a DEB file) and then try and install it. It has happened on Picasa, Google earth and now Skype - can anyone tell me what the error means and what I can do to resolve it?
(Reading database ... 183328 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking skype (from .../skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): data: internal gzip read error: '<fd:0>: data error'
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /tmp/skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_i386.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_i386.deb
Thanks...!
(Reading database ... 183328 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking skype (from .../skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): data: internal gzip read error: '<fd:0>: data error'
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /tmp/skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_i386.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_i386.deb
Thanks...!