On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> I downloaded the security updates from debian.org and when i tried to install > them, I got: > > lilypad:/home/pollywog# dpkg -i netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb > dpkg-deb: `netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb' is not a debian format archive > dpkg: error processing netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb (--install): > subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > netstd_3.07-2hamm.4_i386.deb > > Are these not ordinary deb archives? Maybe errors while downloading try ar x <deb file> to check
