Hmm no problems here to speak up. Question... You are logged in as root right? Here's another method to extract the deb archive:
ar vx /tmp/*.deb && tar -xzf /tmp/data.tar.gz
I've also updated the url in the how-to above so that it now points to the offical Debian repository. If for some reason, you find you still cant extract the contents of the deb file, reply here & I'll post a link to the stripped/converted font so you can down load it directly. In fact, hold on, will upload it now...
Okay, download the font here [4kb]:
http://freebsd.hypermart.net/misc/te...latin-8x16.fnt
Then, start at step 7...