Re: [webmin-l] webmin-l Upgrade Webmin error

[Kris D. <kd...@vi...>]

Paul Southcott wrote:
> Hi
>
> Iam upgradimg 1.68 to 1.84 and get the follwoing error
>
> (Reading database ... 56980 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace webmin 1.680 (using .../272130_22020_2_upgrade.cgi) ...
> Unpacking replacement webmin ...
> dpkg-deb: file `/tmp/.webmin/272130_22020_2_upgrade.cgi' contains ununderstood data member data.tar.xz     , giving up
> Segmentation fault

How old is your Debian (or whatever derivative)?  What's the dpkg version?

Looking through the dpkg changelog, bzip components were deprecated in 
favour of xz in 2014, and initial support for data.tar.xz looks to have 
been added in 2010 with version 1.15.6.

I suspect you're looking at a major system update or a complete rebuild 
to fix this, because all of the underlying package-building tools have 
moved on, and there's only one Webmin .deb being generated.

-kgd