[mythtv-users] deb package error on install

Jim Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 15:18:00 UTC 2019


On my Ubuntu 18.04 test system I was installing mythtv-frontend and got 
an error:

jim at jim-build-machine:~$ sudo apt install mythtv-frontend
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
   mythtv-common mythtv-dbg
Suggested packages:
   mythtv-doc mythtv-backend mythmusic mythweather mythgame ntp | 
time-daemon
   | ntp-simple
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   mythtv-common mythtv-dbg mythtv-frontend
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/182 MB of archives.
After this operation, 222 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 170686 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack 
.../mythtv-common_2%3a30.0+fixes.201902190256.2603424~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb 
...
Unpacking mythtv-common 
(2:30.0+fixes.201902190256.2603424~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: 
compressed data is corrupt
dpkg-deb: error: <decompress> subprocess returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing archive 
/var/cache/apt/archives/mythtv-common_2%3a30.0+fixes.201902190256.2603424~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb 
(--unpack):
  dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile subprocess returned error exit status 2
Selecting previously unselected package mythtv-frontend.
Preparing to unpack 
.../mythtv-frontend_2%3a30.0+fixes.201902190256.2603424~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb 
...
Unpacking mythtv-frontend 
(2:30.0+fixes.201902190256.2603424~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
Preparing to unpack 
.../mythtv-dbg_2%3a30.0+fixes.201902190256.2603424~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb 
...
Unpacking mythtv-dbg (2:30.0+fixes.201902190256.2603424~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: 
compressed data is corrupt
dpkg-deb: error: <decompress> subprocess returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing archive 
/var/cache/apt/archives/mythtv-dbg_2%3a30.0+fixes.201902190256.2603424~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb 
(--unpack):
  cannot copy extracted data for 
'./usr/lib/debug/.build-id/67/2ca3c3eaba0502dbc8be4c8fa1ff418281bad5.debug' 
to 
'/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/67/2ca3c3eaba0502dbc8be4c8fa1ff418281bad5.debug.dpkg-new': 
unexpected end of file or stream
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/mythtv-common_2%3a30.0+fixes.201902190256.2603424~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/mythtv-dbg_2%3a30.0+fixes.201902190256.2603424~ubuntu18.04.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



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