package openjdk-6-jre-headless (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2

[George]

I was performing an apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras and the package was badly installed, had to purge it with its dependencies to replace it with sun-jre6-bin for the time being. hope this gets fixed soon.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: openjdk-6-jre-headless (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 11 04:09:14 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: openjdk-6
Title: package openjdk-6-jre-headless (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal:

sudo apt-get clean

Then try performing the update again. This will likely resolve your issue, but the failure can be caused by filesystem or memory corruption. So please also run a fsck on your filesystem(s) and a memory test. If this does resolve your bug please set its status to Invalid. Thanks in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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