security update failure

[scpeckham]

I am still fairly new to linux, so this may be a user problem, but any info/Idea on what I am doing wrong would be appreciated.
I am running Debian Sarge (2.6).
I am using the Synaptic Package Manager to do updates.
I got IMAGEMAGIC, and LIBWINE as needing updates, but when I loaded them, the
configure got a memory allocation failure, saying that it needed one gigabyte to unpack/configue. I then created a extra swap file (usually I just use a partition).
On libwine I get the message
Preconfiguring package ... (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/wine_0.0.20050310-1.2_i386.deb (--unpack).
failed in buffer_read(fd): filelist for package 'alsa-oss'; invalid argument
errors encountered while processing /var/cache/apt/archives/wine_0.0.20050310-1.2_i386.deb

the imagemagic errors are identical except instead of wine_0.0.20050310-1.2
it says imagemagick_6%3a6.0.6.2-2.6

Any thoughts on how to correct or circumvent my problem would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Steven Peckham.

[engineuity]

there may be a way to remove packages from your apt-cache...im not sure how, but a google will probably give promising help

[scpeckham]

Thanks, that worked.
I reinstalled ALSA-base and ALSA-utils and everything is back to normal now.