abarbarian Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I am trying to follow this guide http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?showtopic=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 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 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 ? 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 ==> 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 [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 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 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. 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I could kick meself. I had not read far enough down the tuorial No problem What I was talking about downloading and extracting was the actual AUR package not the one you will md5sum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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