Should've mentioned, I did a clear, and it did re-download, same issue. 
When I try dpkg manually it does the same thing. dpkg-deb -c shows the 
files, dpkg-deb -x does extract them but I'm not sure how to parlay that 
into an install.

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Michael Moore wrote:

> Maybe that .deb file is corrupt?
> 
> If you clear out your cache, or at least delete offending .deb file does it
> re-download it and work?
> 
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> 
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> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:35 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:
>       Ok, so I did an apt-get -u dist-upgrade, and it errors out with
>       this:
>
>       dpkg: error processing/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae_3.2.0-56.86_i386
>       .deb (--unpack):
>        unable to create`/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae/include/config/pppoatm.h.dpkg-
>       new' (while processing
>       `./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae/include/config/pppoatm.h'):
>       No space left on device
>
>       So yeah, it can't create that file because no space left on
>       device.
>
>       Except there's plenty of space left on device:
>
>         root at tiger:/# df -h /usr/src/
>         Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>         /dev/sda5       4.0G  1.8G  2.0G  47% /usr
>
>       In fact there's no filesystem on this machine that's even close
>       to full. Here are the 'real' filesystems:
>
>         Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>         /dev/sda3       4.0G  1.2G  2.6G  32% /
>         /dev/sda8       9.9G  151M  9.2G   2% /tmp
>         /dev/sda1       504M   98M  382M  21% /boot
>         /dev/sda7       4.0G  1.8G  2.0G  48% /home
>         /dev/sda5       4.0G  1.8G  2.0G  47% /usr
>         /dev/sda6       4.0G  455M  3.3G  12% /var
>         /dev/sda9       2.0G   70M  1.9G   4% /usr/local
>
>       I can manually create the files it wants, too.
>
>       Anyone have any ideas?
>
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