Re: [Lam-public] Not a Debian format archive Error on 22.04 LTS

[tradersystems <dan...@tr...>]

Dear Jean-Yves,

I think you were right - just bad timing. The original download was a 
few bites short. I downloaded it today again and no more issues.

Thanks for the hint!

Daniel

Am 11.12.2023 um 19:38 schrieb Bzzzz:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:56:25 +0100
> tradersystems via Lam-public <lam...@li...> wrote:
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
>> error message for a wrong package format for the -deb source under
>> Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
>>
>> root@lam-a:~# dpkg -i ldap-account-manager_8.5-1_all.deb
>> dpkg-deb: error: 'ldap-account-manager_8.5-1_all.deb' is not a Debian
>> format archive
>> dpkg: error processing archive ldap-account-manager_8.5-1_all.deb
>> (--install):
>>    dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>    ldap-account-manager_8.5-1_all.deb
>> root@lam-a:~#
>>
>> Any idea?
> This looks like a download that occurred during a server update, which
> should never happen on a correctly configured server (the remote one,
> not yours') - it also might be a disk with bad sector(s).
>
> I just tried it on a Debian bookworm up to date (Version 8.3-1) without
> any problem.
>
> So, I would do some things :
>
> * rename the original to: ….bad.deb for further possible bad sector
>    investigation,
>
> * reload a fresh pkg: apt-get download ldap-account-manager , which will
>    drop the pkg in the current directory and try again to install it
>    using the usual dpkg syntax.
>
> If you encounter another error, then it is the pkgs server fault, if
> not and you do not found any bad sector in the original file, then
> it'll also be the pkgs server fault, as it should refuse to deliver
> until the pkg is consistent.
>
> Jean-Yves

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