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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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