<html><head><base href="x-msg://537/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If it is a true .deb you need to apply <div>> ar x xy.deb</div><div>and then</div><div>> tar -xvJ <~/aux/data.tar.xz</div><div><br></div><div>(A real .deb will also contain a control .tar.gz with control, shlibs, md5sums, postinst, etc.)</div><div><br></div><div>It should be built with</div><div><div>> pushd BUILD</div><div>> dpkg-buildpackage -sa -<a href="mailto:kmy@email.org">kmy@email.org</a></div><div>> popd</div></div><div>and checked with</div><div>> lintian -EvIL +pedantic my.dsc</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Am 28.05.2014 um 08:42 schrieb Jay K:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; "><div dir="ltr">.deb is just a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 or .tar.xz with a little bit more around it.<br>They can be fancy but ours is not, it is just a compressed .tar.<br>Can you just crack it open and install the underlying parts?<br>It is likely "position independent" and you can extract it anywhere in your file system -- /usr/local/cm3, $HOME/cm3, etc.<br><br>I build them pretty "manually" see here:<br><a href="https://dcvs.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/scripts/python/pylib.py" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://dcvs.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/scripts/python/pylib.py" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://dcvs.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/scripts/python/pylib.py" target="_blank">https://dcvs.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/scripts/python/pylib.py</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>the function MakeDebianPackage<br>Ok, it is an actually an "ar" file, and inside the main thing is data.tar with some compression like .gz or .xz.<br><br> - Jay<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: <a href="mailto:dragisha@m3w.org">dragisha@m3w.org</a><br>Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 19:49:28 +0200<br>To: <a href="mailto:bruceax@gmail.com">bruceax@gmail.com</a><br>CC: <a href="mailto:m3devel@elegosoft.com">m3devel@elegosoft.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [M3devel] Installing on Ubuntu Trusty Tahr<br><br>It looks like it is external to cm3 anything. But maybe .deb is incorrect in some subtle way.<br><div><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Candara; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; ">--</div></span></div></span><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Dragiša Durić</span><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; "><div><a href="mailto:dragisha@m3w.org">dragisha@m3w.org</a></div><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></span><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"></div><br><div><div>On 29 Apr 2014, at 15:01, bruce axtens <<a href="mailto:bruceax@gmail.com">bruceax@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div>I am having difficulty installing cm3-LINUXLIBC6-REL.deb on Trusty? When I try to install it with Ubuntu Software Centre I get told the following:<br><br><blockquote>Lintian check results for /home/bruce/Downloads/cm3-LINUXLIBC6-REL.deb:<br>Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /usr/share/perl5/<br>Lintian/Collect/Package.pm line 513, <$_[...]> line 7562.<br></blockquote><br>Is this a Perl issue or an installer issue?<br><br>-- Bruce</div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>