I'm experiencing this issue when attempting to install the latest
Liquorix kernel that I've been using for years.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
$ apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
Installed: 1.17.5ubuntu5.7
Candidate: 1.17.5ubuntu5.7
Version table:
*** 1.17.5ubuntu5.7 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.17.5ubuntu5.6 0
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64
Packages
1.17.5ubuntu5 0
$ sudo apt full-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-headers-4.13.0-13.1-liquorix-amd64
linux-image-4.13.0-13.1-liquorix-amd64
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-headers-liquorix-amd64 linux-image-liquorix-amd64
2 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/57.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 280 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Supported
Create a snapshot of '/tmp/apt-btrfs-snapshot-mp-21ujpnev/@' in
'/tmp/apt-btrfs-snapshot-mp-21ujpnev/@apt-snapshot-2017-11-19_17:41:21'
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg-deb: error: archive
'/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.13.0-13.1-liquorix-amd64_4.13-7_amd64.deb'
has premature member 'control.tar.xz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.13.0-13.1-liquorix-amd64_4.13-7_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
dpkg-deb: error: archive
'/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-4.13.0-13.1-liquorix-amd64_4.13-7_amd64.deb'
has premature member 'control.tar.xz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-4.13.0-13.1-liquorix-amd64_4.13-7_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
dpkg-deb: error: archive
'/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-liquorix-amd64_4.13-7_amd64.deb' has
premature member 'control.tar.xz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-liquorix-amd64_4.13-7_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
dpkg-deb: error: archive
'/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-liquorix-amd64_4.13-7_amd64.deb' has
premature member 'control.tar.xz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-liquorix-amd64_4.13-7_amd64.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were
encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-4.13.0-13.1-liquorix-amd64_4.13-7_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-4.13.0-13.1-liquorix-amd64_4.13-7_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-liquorix-amd64_4.13-7_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-liquorix-amd64_4.13-7_amd64.deb
[ Rootkit Hunter version 1.4.0 ]
File updated: searched for 169 files, found 138
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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xz compressed control.tar files not supported
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