How to Install DPKG using ZSTD ?

[Member amg]

How to Install DPKG using ZSTD ?

[Moderator christophe]

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Please elaborate.

zstd, is a lossless data compression algorithm
dpkg is the software at the base of the package management system in the free operating system Debian and its numerous derivatives.

dpkg is installed on antiX by default.

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[Member sybok]

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Did you mean to install ZSTD using DPKG?
This would suggest you have downloaded a custom DEB package from somewhere.
May be, you intended to say/write: “Install ZSTD using any of the package manager in antiX.”

1) Search for ZSTD-related packages in terminal:
‘apt-cache search zstd’
Outputs ‘zstd’ among others
2) Check whether it is installed:
‘apt-cache policy zstd’
Outputs that none is installed but version 1.4.8+dfsg-2.1 is a candidate to install (antiX stable; based on antiX-21 upgraded to Debian-11/bullseye based system).
3) If one wishes to install it, one can follow the tip/trick (there may be an updated version):
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/how-to-install-applications-2020-version/
You can use GUI or CLI; the below is a 2-step process (update the package list and install ‘zstd’) for the CLI, i.e. commands to be run in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install zstd

If you wish something else, then please elaborate as already suggested by @christophe.

[Member amg]

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DPKG can’t use ZSTD
dpkg-deb: error: archive “linux-headers-6.1.0-060100rc5_6.1.0-060100rc5.202211132230_all.deb”
uses an unknown compression method for “control.tar.zst”, stop

• This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by amg.

[Member sybok]

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As I understand it now, you want to install a ZSTD-compressed archive using DPKG.
I did a quick internet search and it is a known missing feature (present in *buntu), probably to be included in the next Debian.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2022/07/msg00006.html
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892664

It seems to me that you cannot at present.
You may consider repackage the package.

Also, it suggests the package you try to install comes from *buntu and not Debian; installing them may mess up your system.

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