[SOLVED] Problem when use apt-get install (Debian)

a.albreiki · 04-11-2014, 12:13 PM

I'm facing problem when i trying to install any package using apt-get. I used Debian Linux OS

such as apt-get install bzip2

I got erorrs

PHP Code:



Reading package lists... Done 
Building dependency tree... Done 
The following extra packages will be installed: 
  libbz2-1.0 libc6 libc6-i386 locales multiarch-support tzdata 
Suggested packages: 
  bzip2-doc glibc-doc 
The following NEW packages will be installed: 
  bzip2 multiarch-support 
The following packages will be upgraded: 
  libbz2-1.0 libc6 libc6-i386 locales tzdata 
5 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 272 not upgraded. 
Need to get 0B/11.6MB of archives. 
After unpacking 6072kB of additional disk space will be used. 
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y 
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! 
  tzdata libc6-i386 locales libc6 multiarch-support libbz2-1.0 bzip2 
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y 
Preconfiguring packages ... 
(Reading database ... 24677 files and directories currently installed.) 
Preparing to replace tzdata 2007b-1 (using .../tzdata_2014b-1_all.deb) ... 
Unpacking replacement tzdata ... 
dpkg-deb: file `/var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2014b-1_all.deb' contains ununderstood data member data.tar.xz     , giving up 
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2014b-1_all.deb (--unpack): 
 subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 
Errors were encountered while processing: 
 /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2014b-1_all.deb 
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried to change several source lists and make
- apt-get clean && apt-get update
- apt-get upgrade
Without any little benefit, Please could advice

jdkaye · 04-11-2014, 12:23 PM

You might try reinstalling the tzdata package and see if that solves the problem (apt-get --reinstall ....)
jdk

Doc CPU · 04-12-2014, 03:31 AM

Hi there,

Quote:

Originally Posted by a.albreiki

I'm facing problem when i trying to install any package using apt-get. I used Debian Linux OS

such as apt-get install bzip2

I got erorrs

Looking at the output of apt-get that you posted, I'm taken aback by two lines:

Code:

5 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 272 not upgraded.

and

Code:

Preparing to replace tzdata 2007b-1 (using .../tzdata_2014b-1_all.deb) ...

I'm beginnig to suspect that your system is hopelessly outdated. The first line tells that there are 272 packages that could be updated (and probably should), but you don't let them. Why?
And then there's the fact that apt-get is about to replace a 2007 version of the tzdate package with a brand-new one. I can't be sure, but it looks to me like you installed Debian 4.0 "Etch" many years ago and never kept it up to date, and now you're trying to update a single package from the Wheezy repository. Expecting this to work is against all odds. It's too likely that the new package has dependencies with others that your old configuration can't satisfy.

So ... it's hard for me to tell you, but the best recommendation I can give you under the circumstances is to make a full backup of your data, and then do a clean, fresh install of an up-to-date system - probably Debian 7 "Wheezy".

[X] Doc CPU

PS: The output of shell commands has nothing to do with PHP code. Why the heck do you mark it as that?

a.albreiki · 04-14-2014, 05:49 AM

Thanks for all, as (Doc CPU) said the problem was in Debian 4.0 "Etch" which is very old Debian version, Fortunately there is an initiative which keeps old Debian distribution archives available - Debian archive (www.debian.org/distrib/archive). So the following line added to the source list /etc/apt/sources.list which is solved the problem..

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ etch contrib main non-free

Thanks again,,

jdkaye · 04-15-2014, 12:26 AM

Glad to hear that.

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jdk

a.albreiki · 04-16-2014, 12:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdkaye

Glad to hear that.

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jdk

Thanks a lot