Hi all, I have installed the Debian linux system on my system but am now having problems installing "other" packages. I can download these packages from the internet from my windows '95 machine and then transfer them to the Linux system using a diskette. When I try to run dpkg on these files I get errors. For example, I have transferred the gzip-1_2_4-10.deb file to the Debian Linux system and now want to install it. I can issue the following command line: dpkg --install gzip-1_2_4-10.deb
I then get the following error: dpkg-deb: 'gzip-1_2_4-10.deb' is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing dpkg_1_2_11elf.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: gzip-1_2_4-10.deb I am pretty sure that it is a valid binary file because I have downloaded other binary files the same way and have had no problems with them. I have also tried installing a number of other debian packages and get the same error. Is there anything special that I need to do with these debian packages before I try to install them? What am I doing wrong? TIA, P.S. I am pretty new to this "UNIX" game (coming from "wintel" programming), so I would appreciate it if you could detail your explanations. ----------------------------------- Wayne Richardson Advanced Software Engineer 3M Health Information Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------- "Life is not a spectator sport..." ----------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
