Re: DPKG-DEB error

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

This list is not for user support, but for dpkg development, you
should use debian-users@lists.debian.org instead.

On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 14:14:19 -0400, Rajesh Krishnan wrote:
> Hi I am trying to install a TI MultiCoreSDK for High Performance computing
> application. The installation script works on some .ipk files (unpacking
> and installing I assume). So when I run this script it shows me this error.

> The instruction which runs inside the script is
> 
> *sudo dpkg -x  $ipk_install_path  $destination_path *

> Installing ti-csl_git-r2_cortexa15hf-vfp-neon-3.8.ipk in to /evmk2h
> <http://www.ti.com/tool/evmk2h>_nfs/
> dpkg-deb: error: archive 'ti-csl_git-r2_cortexa15hf-vfp-neon-3.8.ipk' has
> premature member 'data.tar.gz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up
> Installing ti-csl-dev_git-r2_cortexa15hf-vfp-neon-3.8.ipk in to /evmk2h
> <http://www.ti.com/tool/evmk2h>_nfs/
> dpkg-deb: error: archive 'ti-csl-dev_git-r2_cortexa15hf-vfp-neon-3.8.ipk'
> has premature member 'data.tar.gz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up
> Installing libmpmtransport1_1.0.5-r0_cortexa15hf-vfp-neon-3.8.ipk in to /
> evmk2h <http://www.ti.com/tool/evmk2h>_nfs/
> dpkg-deb: error: archive
> 'libmpmtransport1_1.0.5-r0_cortexa15hf-vfp-neon-3.8.ipk' has premature
> member 'data.tar.gz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up

These are not valid .deb packages. You should contact TI so that they
either fix the packages, or to switch to use ipkg/opkg to handle .ipk
files instead of dpkg-deb.

(Meanwhile you could use ar+tar to extract the contents.)

Thanks,
Guillem