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dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

1. Problem description

The following error occurred while attempting to install CUDA 10.2 on Ubuntu 18.04

dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-cuda-dev_9.1.85-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

2. Problem solving

1. Open the terminal and input sudo dpkg - I -- force overwrite XXX 

 sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/nvidia-cuda-dev_9.1.85-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb

2. Repair the damaged package

sudo apt-get -f install

3. Sprinkle flowers after completion

[Solved] Sudo doesn‘t work: “/etc/sudoers is owned by uid 1000, should be 0”

1.error
When I type a sudo command into the terminal it shows the following error:

sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 1000, should be 0
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

How do I fix this?
2. Solution:
Change the owner back to root:

pkexec chown root:root /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d -R

Or use the visudo command to ensure general correctness of the files:

pkexec visudo