Alright I figured it out.
It seems that the file: /sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control gets extracted using the first gzip that gets encountered in your path. I removed the /sw/bin/gzip and re-ran the install and it worked. -Rich ------------ Original ------------ I sent this email yesterday and didn't hear anything. I find it hard to believe that no one out there has any clue as to how to clear up this error. How do I get this package reinstalled? It is one of the packages that has the zero length files in /sw/bin. [~:voodoo] ramos% sudo apt-get --reinstall install gzip Password: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/69.8kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y dpkg: error processing /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/gzip_1.2.4a-6_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack): failed to open package info file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' for reading: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/gzip_1.2.4a-6_darwin-powerpc.deb E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [~:voodoo] ramos%
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