RE: dpkg reports problems with package files
I have had exactly the same problems with the same packages off the
Tri-Linux CD. Looks like the CD image is a bit dodgey.
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>From: osinski@valis.cs.nyu.edu[SMTP:osinski@valis.cs.nyu.edu]
>Sent: 20 June 1997 23:01
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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>Subject: dpkg reports problems with package files
>
>I installed Debian 1.3 from the recent Tri-Linux CD. When dselect was going
>through the packagesin the Install step, the following error message was
>reported:
>
>dpkg-deb: unexpected end of file in version number in
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/stable/binary/sound/timidity-patches_0.1-1.deb
>dpkg: error processing
>/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/stable/binary/sound/timidity-patches_0.1-1.deb
>(--install):
> subprocess dpkg-deb -- control returned error exit status 2
>
>I got the same error for each of the following packages:
>
> gnat_3.09-1
> lesstif-dev_0.76-1
> lesstif-dbg_0.76-1
> lesstif-bin_0.76-1
> timidity-patches_0.1-1
> xbooks_3.2-6
>
>Fortunately, I wasn't trying to install any of the above. My questions are:
>
>* Is this a problem with the package file, the CD, dpkg, or something else?
>
>* Should this be reported somewhere, or is it a well-known problem (or maybe
> not a problem at all)?
>
>* Is there some place where I can get an errata of known problems for 1.3?
> (I ran into 2 others; one was a problem with the serial module which I
> finally figured out how to fix after nearly a week, and a problem with
> xdm reporting "invalid login" for valid passwords. I found a possible
> solution to that one by searching the debian mailing lists; I'll try it
> as soon as I send this message and leave Windows95. :-))
>
>Thanks.
>
>- Ed
>
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