On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 12:14:10PM +0300, [email protected] wrote: > Hello! > > Thank yoU for Pointing to the "multiarch" package, but it failed to install > on my Debian 5.0.10: > > # dpkg -i multiarch-support_2.17-97+alpha_alpha.deb > (Reading database ... 11680 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking multiarch-support (from multiarch-support_2.17-97+alpha_alpha.deb) > ... > dpkg-deb: file `multiarch-support_2.17-97+alpha_alpha.deb' contains > ununderstood data member data.tar.xz , giving up > dpkg: error processing multiarch-support_2.17-97+alpha_alpha.deb (--install): > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > multiarch-support_2.17-97+alpha_alpha.deb > > It looks like this is the "new-style"(packed without backward compatibility) > package that won`t install on old Debian 5.0.10 :( . Is there a way to > re-pack this package on old Debian? Or, maybe, there ia a way to > "extract-copy-register" its contents manually?
I think something like this should work (on another system, could be amd64 or i386 even): dpkg-deb -R multiarch-support_2.17-97+alpha_alpha.deb multiarch-support dpkg-deb -Zgzip -b multiarch-support multiarch-support_2.17-97+alpha_alpha.deb.new But you will probably still have lots of other problems to solve. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
