[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#489026: Bug#489026: tcl8.5: short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/libtcl8.5.so.0') when installing

[Sergei Golovan]

On 7/3/08, Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hello,
>  this is the apt-get log when installing tcl8.5:
>
>  # apt-get install tcl8.5
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  Building dependency tree
>  Reading state information... Done
>  Suggested packages:
>   tclreadline
>  The following packages will be upgraded:
>   tcl8.5
>  1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
>  Need to get 0B/1571kB of archives.
>  After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
>  database /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db failed to load.
>  (Reading database ... 249082 files and directories currently installed.)
>  Preparing to replace tcl8.5 8.5.2-2 (using .../tcl8.5_8.5.2-3_amd64.deb) ...
>  Unpacking replacement tcl8.5 ...
>  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tcl8.5_8.5.2-3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>   short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/libtcl8.5.so.0')

I'm afraid it's your specific problem. It seems that you haven't
downloaded tcl8.5_8.5.2-3_amd64.deb completely.

Try to clean APT cache using apt-get clean (and if you're downloading
packages via proxy you might want to clean proxy cache too) and
reinstall the package again.

Please, report if reinstalling will succeed and I'll close the bug.

-- 
Sergei Golovan