I try to instal Vertica on my Ubuntu 14.10. I first downloaded .deb package from the official Vertica site and then I ran this command:
$ sudo dpkg -i vertica_7.0.0-1_amd64.deb
The error I get, is this one:
dpkg-deb: error: `vertica_7.0.0-1_amd64.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing archive vertica_7.0.0-1_amd64.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
vertica_7.0.0-1_amd64.deb
dpkg-deb: error: `vertica_7.0.0-1_amd64.deb' is not a debian format archive
Regarding the error:
This error indicated that the header of the .deb archive is not recognized as a valid debian format.
It means you downloaded something that is not passing the basic validation of being an installer for a debian based system. So either the download was not correct and the file became corrupted during the download or the file they let you download is corrupt to begin with.
Retry the download; if it is still giving this error you need to contact them.
file vertica_7.0.0-1_amd64.deband edit in the results. – Rinzwind Mar 08 '15 at 15:28