[Bio-linux-dev] QIIME installation issue

[Florent Angly]

On 15/02/12 22:23, Tim Booth wrote:
> It looks like later versions of dpkg have started getting picky about
> things in control files that were previously ignored.  For example,
> about a year ago dpkg started enforcing the rule that package versions
> must begin with a digit and I had to re-version a bunch of things.
>
> I guess you are using the latest version of Ubuntu and thus seeing this
> problem before I do.
I have Linux Mint Debian Edition and dpkg version 1.16.1.2.

> I'll shortly start moving all packages to the
> 12.04 pre-release so at that point I'll have to fix any anomalies like
> this.  In the meantime I've chopped the offending line from the package
> and updated the version on the server for you.  Any joy now?
Yes, it works flawlessly now.
Thank you Tim,

Florent


On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 04:17 +0000, Florent Angly wrote:
>> It is just me then I guess...
>> Florent
>>
>>
>> On 13/02/12 13:14, Florent Angly wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am trying to install QIIME, but I got this error message:
>>>> $ sudo apt-get install bio-linux-qiime
>>>> [sudo] password for floflooo:
>>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>>> Building dependency tree
>>>> Reading state information... Done
>>>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>>>    bio-linux-qiime
>>>> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
>>>> Need to get 1,058 kB of archives.
>>>> After this operation, 2,048 kB of additional disk space will be used.
>>>> Get:1 http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/bio-linux/ unstable/bio-linux
>>>> bio-linux-qiime amd64 1:1.3.0bl-6 [1,058 kB]
>>>> Fetched 1,058 kB in 6s (162 kB/s)
>>>> dpkg: error processing
>>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/bio-linux-qiime_1%3a1.3.0bl-6_amd64.deb
>>>> (--unpack):
>>>>   parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 16 package
>>>> 'bio-linux-qiime':
>>>>   blank line in value of field 'Description'
>>>> configured to not write apport reports
>>>>                                        Errors were encountered while
>>>> processing:
>>>>   /var/cache/apt/archives/bio-linux-qiime_1%3a1.3.0bl-6_amd64.deb
>>>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>> Does anyone else experience the same issue or is it just me?
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Florent
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