Re: Package Installation Failure

2000-11-10 Thread Hubert Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > dpkg-deb: file looks like it might be an archive which has been > dpkg-deb:corrupted by being downloaded in ASCII mode > dpkg-deb: `/home/yves/APPLICATIONS/Packages/libforms0_89_0_89-6.deb' is not a > debian format archive > dpkg: error processing > /home/yves/APPL

Package Installation Failure

2000-11-10 Thread Yves . Pocchiola
I have downloaded a Debian package: libforms0_89_0_89-6.deb under Windows (My computer hosts both Linux/Debian2.2 and Windows and is equipped by a WinModem not supported by Linux). When I try to install the package by dpkg -install, it fails and I get the following messages: dpkg-deb: file look

Netstd Package Installation Failure

1997-09-18 Thread <-------->
Hi, I recently downloaded Debian From the ftp site and installed and started installing different packages but theres one that im stuck at The package is called netstd_2.13-1.deb.this is what installation tells me: dpkg-deb:subprocess paste killed by signal (broken pipe) dpkg:error processing netst