Open Office update fails to install due to corrupted file

[cryptolemur]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

The update manager keeps bugging me to update Open Office, but when I do the update, it fails. No matter if I empty the cache and download the files again, always the same.

This is what I get with dpkg:

Preparing to replace openoffice.org-calc 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3 (using openoffice.org-calc_1%3a3.0.1-9ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement openoffice.org-calc ...
dpkg-deb: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 1
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-calc_1%3a3.0.1-9ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb (--install):
 corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openoffice.org-calc_1%3a3.0.1-9ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-calc 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Title: package openoffice.org-calc 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64

[to be removed (liw)]

Could you open a terminal window and do the following:

dpkg -c var/cache/apt/archives//openoffice.org-calc_1%3a3.0.1-9ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb

Does that command output any error message?

You said you empty the cache. Did you do it by running "apt-get clean"? If not, could you try that, too.
Did you reboot after trying to upgrade?

[to be removed (liw)]

Also, could you add to this bug report the output from this command:

md5sum /var/cache/apt/archives//openoffice.org-calc_*

[cryptolemur (tperheentupa)]

Here goes:

cryptolemur@monkeybox:~$ sudo dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives//openoffice.org-calc_1%3a3.0.1-9ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2

cryptolemur@monkeybox:~$ md5sum /var/cache/apt/archives//openoffice.org-calc_1%3a3.0.1-9ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb
e495d61e6167516ca3954c68cd1daced /var/cache/apt/archives//openoffice.org-calc_1%3a3.0.1-9ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb

I did run "apt-get clean" (several times) but I did not reboot. I also changed the Finnish repository to the main, just for the heck of it. The problem still exists.

[cryptolemur (tperheentupa)]

Ok, finally figured out this was due to 'wrong' version of lzma (9.07). Seems to be incompatible with (some?) deb packages.

After making sure lzma 4.43 is used, everything works great!

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

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