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On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 14:14:19 -0400, Rajesh Krishnan wrote: > Hi I am trying to install a TI MultiCoreSDK for High Performance computing > application. The installation script works on some .ipk files (unpacking > and installing I assume). So when I run this script it shows me this error. > The instruction which runs inside the script is > > *sudo dpkg -x $ipk_install_path $destination_path * > Installing ti-csl_git-r2_cortexa15hf-vfp-neon-3.8.ipk in to /evmk2h > <http://www.ti.com/tool/evmk2h>_nfs/ > dpkg-deb: error: archive 'ti-csl_git-r2_cortexa15hf-vfp-neon-3.8.ipk' has > premature member 'data.tar.gz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up > Installing ti-csl-dev_git-r2_cortexa15hf-vfp-neon-3.8.ipk in to /evmk2h > <http://www.ti.com/tool/evmk2h>_nfs/ > dpkg-deb: error: archive 'ti-csl-dev_git-r2_cortexa15hf-vfp-neon-3.8.ipk' > has premature member 'data.tar.gz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up > Installing libmpmtransport1_1.0.5-r0_cortexa15hf-vfp-neon-3.8.ipk in to / > evmk2h <http://www.ti.com/tool/evmk2h>_nfs/ > dpkg-deb: error: archive > 'libmpmtransport1_1.0.5-r0_cortexa15hf-vfp-neon-3.8.ipk' has premature > member 'data.tar.gz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up These are not valid .deb packages. You should contact TI so that they either fix the packages, or to switch to use ipkg/opkg to handle .ipk files instead of dpkg-deb. (Meanwhile you could use ar+tar to extract the contents.) Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150418203108.ga15...@gaara.hadrons.org
