package openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu7 failed to install/upgrade: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive

[jmz2020]

Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

openjdk-6-jre-headless:
  Installed: 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu7
  Candidate: 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu10
  Version table:
     6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu10 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
 *** 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies...Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.28-11 linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  openjdk-6-jre-headless
Suggested packages:
  sun-java6-fonts
The following packages will be upgraded:
  openjdk-6-jre-headless
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/25.7MB of archives.
After this operation, 4096B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 227440 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu7 (using .../openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu10_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement openjdk-6-jre-headless ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu10_i386.deb (--unpack):
 corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu10_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu7
SourcePackage: openjdk-6
Title: package openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu7 failed to install/upgrade: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[jmz2020 (jmz2020)]

I removed the broken packages with synaptic, noting that freecol was the reason I had installed them, then re-installed freecol. Problem resolved.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

invalid:

  install/upgrade: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive

remove the downloaded file and reinstall. not an openjdk bug