[Neurodebian-users] afni-atlases_0.20180120 install issues on trusty

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Thank you for the report Dylan!
let's continue at https://github.com/neurodebian/afni/issues/12


On Thu, 01 Feb 2018, Dylan D. Wagner wrote:

> Hey Neurodebian folks. Noticed the following error when upgrading the
> afni-atlases on trusty thought you'd like to know!

> ```
> dpkg-deb: error: archive
> '/var/cache/apt/archives/afni-atlases_0.20180120-1_all.deb' has premature
> member 'control.tar.xz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up
> dpkg: error processing archive
> /var/cache/apt/archives/afni-atlases_0.20180120-1_all.deb (--unpack):
> ```

> From what I've read it appears to be something happening with recent builds
> using .xz compression which is not supported by the dpkg in Trusty and
> Precise (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1730627) and
> (see: https://github.com/sbt/sbt-native-packager/issues/1067). I also have a
> Xenial VM and it installed fine on there so can confirm it's definitely a
> trusty & precise issue.

> Technically I guess this isn't exactly neurodebian's problem but it also
> seems easy to fix when making packages for trusty and precise until their
> dpkg gets .xz support if that ever happens.
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