$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install libcaca0 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 9 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/106kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y E: Invalid archive signature E: Prior errors apply to /var/cache/apt/archives/libcaca0_0.99.beta11.debian-2build1_i386.deb debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptordpkg-deb: `/var/cache/apt/archives/libcaca0_0.99.beta11.debian-2build1_i386.deb' is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libcaca0_0.99.beta11.debian-2build1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libcaca0_0.99.beta11.debian-2build1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)