It would be good to have also ftp access to the archives because it is a
much better protocol for file transfers.
-- Pedro I. Sanchez
I used wget to bring the package and here is what I get:
$ wget http://www.abisource.com/binaries/0.7.0/linux/i386/abisuite_0.7.0-1.deb --14:56:47-- http://www.abisource.com:80/binaries/0.7.0/linux/i386/abisuite_0.7.0-1.deb => `abisuite_0.7.0-1.deb.1' Connecting to 47.152.1.152:8080... connected! Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2,623,810 [application/octet-stream]
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15:08:33 (3.63 KB/s) - `abisuite_0.7.0-1.deb.1' saved [2623810/2623810]
$ dpkg -i abisuite_0.7.0-1.deb (Reading database ... 38801 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking abisuite (from abisuite_0.7.0-1.deb) ... dpkg-deb (subprocess): unexpected end of file in member data in abisuite_0.7.0-1.deb
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing abisuite_0.7.0-1.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile (EOF) returned error exit status 2 Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish(forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) Errors were encountered while processing: abisuite_0.7.0-1.deb