{"id":374322,"date":"2024-07-30T23:53:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T23:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/unusual-bug-for-deb-file-conversion\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T16:41:09","slug":"unusual-bug-for-deb-file-conversion","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/unusual-bug-for-deb-file-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Bug for .deb File Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi!<\/p>\n

My research group has been using Lumerical in a cluster environment for a few years now. We don’t have sudo privileges, and the cluster doesn’t have rpm2cpio installed. So, we can’t use instructions like the ones here<\/a>, and instead we’ve always installed Lumerical by:<\/p>\n

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  1. Locally performing the alien conversion step on this page: https:\/\/optics.ansys.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/1500005392522-Ubuntu-Linux-installation-guide <\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Uploading the .deb file to the cluster<\/li>\n
  3. Unpacking the .deb file with a workaround “ar p” command<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This has always worked great for us, but we’re now trying to upgrade to a 2024 Lumerical version, and we’re suddenly getting an alien error, no matter which version we try. We have also tried reinstalling the 2024v2 tar.gz file – no luck.<\/p>\n

    The error we get is very brief with no details: “Unpacking of ‘Lumerical-2024R2-R2-626a190136.el7.x86_64.rpm’ failed at \/usr\/share\/perl5\/Alien\/Package\/Rpm.pm line 168.”<\/p>\n

    Line 168 seems to open up and unpack the file for conversion to cpio. I already have the latest version of rpm2cpio installed on my local machine, so it seems like this is potentially an incompatibility issue between some rpms and the latest alien version? <\/p>\n

    Has this issue been solved before for Lumerical? (A related line-168 failure post<\/a> seemed to be solved by following the .\/extract-rpm.sh procedure, but that unfortunately won’t work for us, since rpm2cpio isn’t enabled in the cluster environment.) Could a .deb file potentially be provided alongside the existing .rpm?<\/p>\n

    Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-374322","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["36773","4274"],"_bbp_author_ip":["18.29.113.14"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["685"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["374322"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["4274","36773"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["5"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["375309"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["375309"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-08-02 16:40:59"]},"test":"scorsettmit-edu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/374322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/374322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}