dpkg-deb: error: `mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb' is not a debian format archive

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Julien Barbedette

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Jul 4, 2013, 4:41:12 PM7/4/13
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I tried to install the mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb on a Debian Wheezy and I got the following message:

dpkg-deb: error: `mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb

I perfectly understand the error but why the classic .deb package for Debian/Ubuntu could not be installed on a Debian Wheezy? Any idea? 

Jeff Kaufman

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Jul 8, 2013, 9:43:17 AM7/8/13
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Could you try downloading it again?  Perhaps the deb got corrupted?


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Julien Barbedette

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Jul 8, 2013, 4:46:45 PM7/8/13
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I tried both beta and stable .deb and got the same result.

I tried the following to check .deb package :  lintian mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb.

It returned :

/usr/bin/ar: /root/tmp/mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb: File format not recognized

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
/bin/tar: Child returned status 1
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Skipping mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb: could not read control data in /root/tmp/mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb:  at /usr/share/lintian/lib/Lintian/ProcessablePool.pm line 94
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Maksim Orlovich

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Jul 9, 2013, 10:36:12 AM7/9/13
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How odd, I just downloaded it to check it, and the file seems fine.


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Samuel

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Jul 19, 2013, 4:10:59 PM7/19/13
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Same problem here but with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 Bits... :(

Shawn Ligocki

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Jul 19, 2013, 4:25:24 PM7/19/13
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I also tried downloading the package and it seems fine to me. Here's what I get:

$ lintian mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb 
E: mod-pagespeed-stable: unstripped-binary-or-object usr/bin/pagespeed_js_minify
E: mod-pagespeed-stable: embedded-library usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_pagespeed.so: libjpeg
E: mod-pagespeed-stable: embedded-library usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_pagespeed.so: libpng
E: mod-pagespeed-stable: embedded-library usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_pagespeed_ap24.so: libjpeg
E: mod-pagespeed-stable: embedded-library usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_pagespeed_ap24.so: libpng
E: mod-pagespeed-stable: no-copyright-file
W: mod-pagespeed-stable: extended-description-line-too-long
W: mod-pagespeed-stable: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/pagespeed_js_minify
W: mod-pagespeed-stable: maintainer-script-ignores-errors postinst
W: mod-pagespeed-stable: maintainer-script-ignores-errors prerm
W: mod-pagespeed-stable: maintainer-script-ignores-errors postrm

$ lintian --version
Lintian v2.5.6ubuntu0.1

$ md5sum mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb 
55761d1da9671123d70eeccdffc37b35  mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb

$ dpkg --info mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb 
 new debian package, version 2.0.
 size 4957516 bytes: control archive= 4595 bytes.
     161 bytes,     4 lines      conffiles            
     573 bytes,    13 lines      control              
    7081 bytes,   222 lines   *  postinst             #!/bin/sh
    7258 bytes,   218 lines   *  postrm               #!/bin/sh
     271 bytes,    15 lines   *  prerm                #!/bin/sh
 Package: mod-pagespeed-stable
 Version: 1.4.26.3-r3101
 Architecture: amd64
 Maintainer: mod_pagespeed developers <mod-page...@googlegroups.com>
 Installed-Size: 12412
 Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.0)
 Depends: apache2.2-common, libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1-4)
 Conflicts: mod-pagespeed-beta
 Replaces: mod-pagespeed-beta
 Section: httpd
 Priority: optional
 Description: Apache 2 module to optimize web content.
  mod_pagespeed is an Apache module that aims to speed up load time of pages by applying web performance best practices automatically.

Are you getting different results?


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Samuel

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Jul 19, 2013, 5:04:57 PM7/19/13
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Well... I don't have lintian installed to test the package (sorry). But I tried a different aproach to discard a download problem.

Downloaded the deb package from my desktop computer (Windows) and then uploaded via SFTP to my Ubuntu LAMP server.

And then I have installed it without errors... So definitely it seems some weird problem while downloading it with wget from my server.

But now I get another weird problem while running "apt-get update" after installing mod_pagespeed:

E: GPG error: http://dl.google.com stable Release: The following signatures were invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2

Any info would be appreciated.
Same problem here but with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 Bits... :(

El jueves, 4 de julio de 2013 22:41:12 UTC+2, Julien Barbedette escribió:
I tried to install the mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb on a Debian Wheezy and I got the following message:

dpkg-deb: error: `mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb

I perfectly understand the error but why the classic .deb package for Debian/Ubuntu could not be installed on a Debian Wheezy? Any idea? 

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Si Shangase

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Feb 16, 2016, 8:55:39 PM2/16/16
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Getting a similar output to you as well.

When I run:

lintian mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb 
This
This is what I get:

The program 'lintian' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:apt-get install lintian

Did you figure out a workaround for this?

Thanks

Jeffrey Crowell

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Feb 17, 2016, 10:43:14 AM2/17/16
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you have to install lintian, you can use 

sudo apt-get install lintian

to do that.

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Si Shangase

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Feb 17, 2016, 10:47:28 AM2/17/16
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Yep did that but had dependency errors show up. 

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Jeffrey Crowell

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Feb 17, 2016, 10:52:18 AM2/17/16
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what errors showed up?

also, just to make sure you don't have a corrupted download of the .deb file.  If you run "md5sum mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb" what do you get for output?

The current package should have 
"6cc55f7afa815d1e018ccbc4941e1132  mod-pagespeed-stable_current_amd64.deb" for output. If not, please retry the download

digitallyhere

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Oct 10, 2016, 7:20:41 PM10/10/16
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if you still have not solved it, try what is suggested here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=107728

rename package so that it only contains one hyphen and the rest are replaced with underscores: name_name_name-amd64.deb or ....-i386.deb

Steve Hill

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Oct 11, 2016, 11:22:37 AM10/11/16
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I'm working on the next release, so I'll look at this. But I also don't understand why only a small set of users are affected by this. What OS are you running? Can you tell me the output of dpkg --version ?

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if you still have not solved it, try what is suggested here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=107728

rename package so that it only contains one hyphen and the rest are replaced with underscores: name_name_name-amd64.deb or ....-i386.deb

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