Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error
apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.1
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote:
> Regarding:
> > > dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb (--install):
> > > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:21:46PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
> >
> > I did--I got around it with apt: don't ask me how, it just worked. IIRC
> > dselect also worked the one time I tried during my dpkg hiatus. It ironed
> > itself out in time and possibly updates, but I can't remember if dpkg or
> > gzip got updated since then :(
>
> I won't ask you how, but I will ask how I can use apt to install a single
> file (namely, this new kernel-image deb). It's probably simple and obvious,
> but I'm not seeing it.
>
> Yes, the problem comes and goes rather randomly. At one point I went from
> about 15 packages which wouldn't install due to this problem to none, all
> in a single update.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Robbie
>
Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a
damn.
email galt@inconnu.isu.edu
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