dpkg issue in Pocketworkstation v0.18

[Steven Sullivan <sullivan.steven@gmail.com>]

Hi all.

Running Pocketworkstation v0.18 (big) on a Zaurus SL-5600 running the
Watapon ROM (Sharp ROM derivate).  Using Vncserver and Fbvnc from
the prompt, not X/Qt in qpe.  I can apt-get update, and apt-get
install seems to work fine except that dpkg always "exits unexpectedly"
after dependencies are checked and items are downloaded.  I sure
hope it's not a memory issue since I think I'm already avoiding the
memory overhead of qpe by not running it.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?  I'm new to Debian so I'm not entirely sure what diagnostics to try.

Many thanks.

STS