Re: TeXLive has corrupt deb?

Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Jan 12, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Scott Hannahs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I am getting an error on Mac OS X 10.9 with the TeXLive binary deb file.
> 
>> Need to get 2924kB of archives. After unpacking 850MB will be used.
>> Get:1 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main texlive-texmf 0.20140525-1 [2924kB]
>> Fetched 2924kB in 12s (240kB/s)                                                                                                                                                                                      
>> Download complete and in download only mode
>> Reading buildlock packages...
>> 	All buildlocks accounted for.
>> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-texmf_0.20140525-1_darwin-x86%5f64.deb
>> (Reading database ... 119715 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Preparing to replace texlive-texmf 0.20110705-1 (using .../texlive-texmf_0.20140525-1_darwin-x86%5f64.deb) ...
>> Unpacking replacement texlive-texmf ...
>> /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: unexpected end of file in between members in /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-texmf_0.20140525-1_darwin-x86%5f64.deb
>> dpkg(27756,0x7fff7b3bb310) malloc: *** error for object 0x100ff0000: pointer being freed was not allocated
>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 6
>> Failed: can't install package texlive-texmf-0.20140525-1
>> 
> 
> The line "/sw/bin/dpkg-deb: unexpected end of file in between members in /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-texmf_0.20140525-1_darwin-x86%5f64.deb" seems to indicate that the deb file is corrupted?  I deleted the downloaded deb file and forced a new upload but got the same error.
> 
> Any ideas?
> -Scott
> 
> 

Yeah, it looks like that .deb is broken; 2924k is quite tiny.  For 10.10 I show

$ ls -l /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-texmf_0.20140525-1_darwin-x86%5f64.deb 
-rw-r--r--  1 root  admin  975431474 Jan  6 06:23 /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-texmf_0.20140525-1_darwin-x86%5f64.deb

I’m not sure if the .deb is in the middle of being uploaded or a script just gave up—the binary distribution is built on a different machine than where it is hosted.

My best recommendation would be to build it on your own machine via “fink —no-use-b install texlive-texmf”.
-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison

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