[Bio-linux-dev] QIIME installation issue

[Tim Booth]

Hi Florent,

Thanks for the bug report.

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'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?

Cheers,

TIM

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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