Re: what is wrong with the security updates?
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> I downloaded the security updates from debian.org and when i tried to install
> them, I got:
>
> lilypad:/home/pollywog# dpkg -i netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb
> dpkg-deb: `netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb' is not a debian format archive
> dpkg: error processing netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb (--install):
> subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb
>
> Are these not ordinary deb archives?
Maybe errors while downloading
try ar x <deb file> to check
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