Unable to install debian package on Ubuntu Saucy

[fgrehm]

$ wget https://github.com/pranavraja/tldr/releases/download/v1/tldr_snapshot_amd64.deb -O /tmp/tldr.deb
--2014-03-17 22:33:43--  https://github.com/pranavraja/tldr/releases/download/v1/tldr_snapshot_amd64.deb
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.252.128
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.252.128|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://s3.amazonaws.com/github-cloud/releases/17535608/2642e9dc-a6cc-11e3-9e9f-c5bd420444f6.deb?response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dtldr_snapshot_amd64.deb&AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAISTNZFOVBIJMK3TQ&Expires=1395106483&Signature=o%2Bua5Md9MrtHtPpulgOyjslrT4c%3D [following]
--2014-03-17 22:33:43--  https://s3.amazonaws.com/github-cloud/releases/17535608/2642e9dc-a6cc-11e3-9e9f-c5bd420444f6.deb?response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dtldr_snapshot_amd64.deb&AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAISTNZFOVBIJMK3TQ&Expires=1395106483&Signature=o%2Bua5Md9MrtHtPpulgOyjslrT4c%3D
Resolving s3.amazonaws.com (s3.amazonaws.com)... 176.32.101.82
Connecting to s3.amazonaws.com (s3.amazonaws.com)|176.32.101.82|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1767428 (1,7M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/tldr.deb’

100%[=============================================================================================================>] 1.767.428    539KB/s   in 3,2s   

2014-03-17 22:33:48 (539 KB/s) - ‘/tmp/tldr.deb’ saved [1767428/1767428]

$ sudo dpkg -i /tmp/tldr.deb
dpkg: error processing /tmp/tldr.deb (--install):
 parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 4 package 'tldr':
 error in Version string 'snapshot': version number does not start with digit
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /tmp/tldr.deb

Please let me know if you need additional information in order to debug!

[fgrehm]

For the record, the binary on the tar.gz work without issues.

[pranavraja]

Ah I forgot to add a version number on the .deb files, thanks for raising this.

I've added new .deb files with versions, please use the following URL instead:

https://github.com/pranavraja/tldr/releases/download/v1/tldr_0.1.0_amd64.deb

[fgrehm]

Thanks, now it works just fine :-)