package totem-gstreamer None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/totem-gstreamer.list] failed to install/upgrade:

Asked by Jason Greene

Binary package hint: totem

It just won't install or upgrade

Synaptic reports

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/totem-gstreamer_2.22.1-0ubuntu2_i386.deb: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive

I tried purging and then reinstalling... i get the same error

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 22 23:26:40 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: package totem-gstreamer is already installed and configured
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: totem-gstreamer None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/totem-gstreamer.list]
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: totem
Title: package totem-gstreamer None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/totem-gstreamer.list] failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic i686

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) said :
#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at [WWW] https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see [WWW] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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François Tissandier (baloo) said :
#2

Did you try:
-uninstall totem via Synaptic (make sure that totem-gstreamer is deleted too)
-"sudo apt-get clean" in a terminal
-then install totem again using Synaptic or the terminal?

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