Re: dpkg: error: --verify needs a valid package name . . .

[Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com>]

On 5/10/18, Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/10/2018 03:33 PM, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>> dpkg: error: --verify needs a valid package name but
>> 'vlc_2.2.7-1~deb9u1_amd64.deb' is not: illegal package name in
>> specifier 'vlc_2.2.7-1~deb9u1_amd64.deb': character '~' not allowed
>> (only letters, digits and characters '-+._')
>
> What are you trying to do?

 trying to verify a package prior to installing it locally. dpkg
doesn't seem to eat package names with tildes

 lbrtchx