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corrupted package archive

Asked by jhcoles

After having downloaded some updates I receive the following message:
"E: /var/cache/apt/archives/evolution_2.6.1-0ubuntu7.1_i386.deb: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive".
I tried (apprehensively!) to use the "fix broken packages" option but I really don't think I know what I'm doing. Any help/suggestions would be extremely welcome.
John Coles

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

You could manually delete that file. Next time you do an update it will re-download it.

sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/evolution_2.6.1-0ubuntu7.1_i386.deb

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Best Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#2

You can try to just remove the corrupted package file with the following command in the command line terminal:

sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/evolution_2.6.1-0ubuntu7.1_i386.deb

and the try the installation of the package again.

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jhcoles (jhcoles) said : 		#3

Once again I'm amazed at the speed and correctness of the answers I receive to my feeble queries.
Many thanks - John Coles

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Mike Wilson (wilsonmr) said : 		#4

This worked for me, too (broken openoffice-common). But wouldn't it be better if Synaptic's 'Fix Broken Packages' routine did this deletion itself, as step 1 in repairs?