Has premature member ‘control.tar.xz’ before ‘control.tar.gz’, giving up
cerebrux opened this issue · 1 comments
Users of Trusty based distros, like Linux Mint 17.x reporting the following :
The following packages will be upgraded:
ucaresystem-core
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,096 B of archives.
After this operation, 18.4 kB disk space will be freed.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/utappia/stable/ubuntu/ trusty/main ucaresystem-core all 4.2.3 [5,096 B]
Fetched 5,096 B in 0s (14.6 kB/s)
dpkg-deb: error: archive ‘/var/cache/apt/archives/ucaresystem-core_4.2.3_all.deb’ has premature member ‘control.tar.xz’ before ‘control.tar.gz’, giving up
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/ucaresystem-core_4.2.3_all.deb (–unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb –control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/ucaresystem-core_4.2.3_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
This is an upstream (ubuntu) bug and hopefully it will be fixed soon.
upstream bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1730627
Please go to the upstream bug report and click on "This bug affects people. Does this bug affect you? " and select "Yes It affects me". This way it gets higher priority.
I will be closing this as a workaround has been implemented