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

[Paul S. <pa...@p7...>]

ah - I guess that is it - it is running ubuntu 7.04

I will have to make time for major rebuild



Regards

Paul

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On 5 June 2017 at 22:49, Kris Deugau <kd...@vi...> wrote:

> 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
>
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