[Wylug-help] apt/dpkg woes

[Jason Lander]

Dave,

> Although, interestingly, dpkg -L libvideo-ivtv-perl gives:
>
>     dpkg-query: failed in buffer_read(fd): files list for package `libvideo-ivtv-perl': Invalid argument
>
> Which may narrow the problem down to package listing.  Unfortunately, my
> knowledge of dpkg is no longer sufficient, to figure out what to do next.

Is it possible that the .deb files are incomplete, possible due to a disk
being full.

The `control' part of a DEB - which holds the description - is stored
separately from the package contents.

What do the following commands do?

   dpkg-deb --info \
     /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.3-30.7ubuntu9_i386.deb

   dpkg-deb --contents \
     /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.3-30.7ubuntu9_i386.deb

- Jason