On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, llucius wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Paul Schoenly wrote: > > > > > $ dpkg --install package_x.deb > > . > > gzip:stdout: Broken pipe > > dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 > > dpkg: error processing package_x.deb (--install) > > subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 > > Errors were encountered... (and so on) > > > I've recently started asking about this too. I figured that it was only > my setup (I'm running Linux/68k), but other people have also said that > there is problems with similar setups to yours. >
I also often have the same problem sometimes (with some packages). It only happens when su-ing to root. To bypass it, I just login directly as root on a VC. I have 1.1 system and it happened with all versions of dpkg including as far way back as .96R6.
