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securitybreach
Posted

I am trying to follow this guide

 

http://forums.scotsn...topic=52921&hl=

 

Trouble is I have a .deb file not a .tar file.

 

Will the guide work on a .deb and how do I proceed ? :huh2:

 

Yes, you can calculate the checksum of any type of file.

 

Can you tell me exactly what package you are trying to install so I can take a look at it?

abarbarian
Posted

==> Validating source files with md5sums...
   minus-desktop-tool_amd64.deb ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build minus-uploader.
==> Restart building minus-uploader ? [y/N]
==> ---------------------------------------
==>
[user@home ~]$ wget http://blog.minus.com/updates/minus-desktop-tool_i386.deb
--2012-05-24 14:53:39--  http://blog.minus.com/updates/minus-desktop-tool_i386.deb
Resolving blog.minus.com... 174.129.200.16
Connecting to blog.minus.com|174.129.200.16|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 589200 (575K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `minus-desktop-tool_i386.deb'

100%[======================================>] 589,200	  142K/s   in 4.2s   

2012-05-24 14:53:43 (138 KB/s) - `minus-desktop-tool_i386.deb' saved [589200/589200]

[user@home ~]$ tar -xzf minus-desktop-tool_i386.deb

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

 

:help:

securitybreach
Posted

[user@home ~]$ tar -xzf minus-desktop-tool_i386.deb

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

 

:help:

 

Why are you trying to extract the file??? Tar is used to extract files not generate md5 checksums. So in order to generate the checksum, you need to use the md5sum command:

md5sum minus-desktop-tool_i386.deb

 

Then edit the PKGBUILD replacing the old md5sum with the generated one.

B)

abarbarian
Posted

Why are you trying to extract the file??? Tar is used to extract files not generate md5 checksums. So in order to generate the checksum, you need to use the md5sum command:

 

 

Then edit the PKGBUILD replacing the old md5sum with the generated one.

B)

 

Then I extracted and cd into the directory:

CODE

╔═ comhack@Cerberus 02:08 PM

╚═══ ~-> tar -xzf iron-bin.tar.gz

 

╔═ comhack@Cerberus 02:08 PM

╚═══ ~-> cd iron-bin/

 

I could kick meself.

I had not read far enough down the tuorial :bangin:

securitybreach
Posted

I could kick meself.

I had not read far enough down the tuorial :bangin:

 

No problem :thumbsup:

 

What I was talking about downloading and extracting was the actual AUR package not the one you will md5sum.

 

B)

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