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8214	ChimeraX deb compatible with Debian?	michal.kadlof@…	Greg Couch	"{{{
Hello,

I tried to install ChimeraX on Debian Bookworm with deb package but it 
failed with following error:

$ sudo dpkg -i ucsf-chimerax_1.5ubuntu22.04_amd64.deb
dpkg-deb: error: archive 'ucsf-chimerax_1.5ubuntu22.04_amd64.deb' uses 
unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive ucsf-chimerax_1.5ubuntu22.04_amd64.deb 
(--install):
  dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
  ucsf-chimerax_1.5ubuntu22.04_amd64.deb

After short googling it turned out that Debian's dpkg does not support 
zst compression and it is not clear if it will support it in future or not.

The topic is discussed here: 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892664

Maybe in the meantime it is worth to switch to standard compression 
method to support wider OS spectrum?

-- 
best regards | pozdrawiam serdecznie
*Michał Kadlof*
Head of the high performance computing center 	Kierownik ośrodka 
obliczeniowego HPC
Eden^N cluster administrator 	Administrator klastra obliczeniowego Eden^N
Structural and Functional Genomics Laboratory 	Laboratorium Genomiki 
Strukturalnej i Funkcjonalnej
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science 	Wydział Matematyki i Nauk 
Informacyjnych
Warsaw University of Technology 	Politechnika Warszawska

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