Thank you,
I fixed by manually deleting the corrupted downloaded package, and 
trying again. I suspect your command is equivalent :-).
Adam

On 08/18/2011 06:13 AM, Brian Murray wrote:
> 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!
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
>         Status: Confirmed =>  Incomplete
>
> ** Tags added: corrupted-package
>

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  package linux-libc-dev 2.6.38-8.42 failed to install/upgrade:
  corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive

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