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Nacre56

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Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 2

Trying to Install LPL Openproof Software

I'm trying to install some software for a course that I TA. It comes in a deb installer with archive following the script.  The script doesn't work in arch and I just want to extract the archive and install it myself. However, it appears to be corrupt and I'm unsure how to go about recovering it, if that is possible.

#!/bin/sh


SKIP=`awk '/^__ARCHIVE_FOLLOWS__/ { print NR + 1; exit 0; }' "$0"`

# Take the TGZ portion of this file and pipe it to gzip and then to tar
tail -n +$SKIP "$0" | tar -xz


exit 0
__ARCHIVE_FOLLOWS__

And the readout:

tar: Skipping to next header

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Child died with signal 13
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Nacre56

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Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 2

Re: Trying to Install LPL Openproof Software

I was able to get around the problem. Turns out my own editing of the script was causing the archive to corrupt. The script was failing because I had no other .deb packages installed on my system. I installed an empty .deb package to pass this "test" and was able to get it to work. Installed now and it looks like the software runs without issue.