Hello,
It seems that there is an issue with the deb packaging of ELAN 6.6.
Here is the log for an install through dpkg :
$ LANG=en sudo dpkg -i ELAN_6-6_linux.deb
dpkg-deb: error: archive 'ELAN_6-6_linux.deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive ELAN_6-6_linux.deb (--install):
dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
ELAN_6-6_linux.deb
Running Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 (based on debian bullseye)
Hello,
Did you run into the same issue with ELAN 6.5 (in case you had that version installed)? It was built was the same jpackage application (but the Ubuntu of the machine the .deb’s were created on, got an update in the mean time). On that machine the error can not be reproduced.
Is zstd installed on your Mint system? If not, you could maybe try if the .deb works after installation of zstd?
-Han
Dear Han,
Thanks for your reply.
I had no issue with ELAN 6.5 on my machine.
Following your advice, I installed zstd (was not installed by default) but it does not work either.
I gave a try at a few live systems this week-end.
Ubuntu 22.04.3 → ELAN 6.6 install is ok, zstd 1.5.4 was installed by default
linuxmint 21.2 (ubuntu based) → ELAN 6.6 install is ok, zstd 1.4.8 was installed by default
Debian 12 → ELAN 6.6 install is ok, zstd 1.5.4 was installed by default
Debian 11.7 → ELAN 6.6 install fails with same issue as original post but ELAN 6.5 installs ok. zstd 1.4.8 was installed by default.
At first I thought it was related to zstd version but mint 21 proved me wrong.
