Corrupt .deb file.

Corrupt .deb file.

[geoff]

I have two separate copies of the Debian GNU/Linux "Woody" 3.0 distro.
One is on CDROMs, the other is on a DVD-ROM.

They both fail to install when the installation reaches
libc6_2.2.5-6_i386.deb
which is stated to be corrupt.

Is it possible that a corrupt file is being distributed,  or must I look
closer to home ?

My other distros (Mandrake,  Red Hat, SuSE 8.0  and FreeBSD4.4 Unix) all
install OK
including the SuSE DVD version.

Anyone else had a similar experience ?
I particularly want to  test drive Debian and the .deb installation system.

Best regards

Geoff
G3FHL



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Re: Corrupt .deb file.

[Ray Olszewski]

"Possible"? Yes. *Likely*? No. Especially not such a core file as libc6, 
the one library that nearly every application program uses.

OTOH, the current version of this package is 2.2.5-14 (in Sid, which I use 
here, and probably in Woody too). And you don't way how either your CD or 
your DVD was made. Occasionally, the Debian online pachage system contains 
a bad backage. I've never seen this persist for more than a day ... but if 
you or someone else constructed an .iso at just the wrong time, you could 
have a bad package or two. Especially if you did it *before* Woody became 
Debian-stable (back when it was Debian-testing).

Assuming you have the target system set up with a connection to the 
Internet, you might do better to download the Debian install floppies and 
do an online installation (the installer on the CDs may even support this 
... I haven't used Debian CDs is a very long time so don't really know). 
This would get you the current versions of all the packages, including all 
security updates.

At 09:39 AM 9/10/02 +0100, geoff wrote:
>I have two separate copies of the Debian GNU/Linux "Woody" 3.0 distro.
>One is on CDROMs, the other is on a DVD-ROM.
>
>They both fail to install when the installation reaches
>libc6_2.2.5-6_i386.deb
>which is stated to be corrupt.
>
>Is it possible that a corrupt file is being distributed,  or must I look
>closer to home ?
>
>My other distros (Mandrake,  Red Hat, SuSE 8.0  and FreeBSD4.4 Unix) all
>install OK
>including the SuSE DVD version.
>
>Anyone else had a similar experience ?
>I particularly want to  test drive Debian and the .deb installation system.

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Palo Alto, California, USA			  ray@comarre.com
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