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I am pretty noob on linux and this is probably a very simple error but I can't fix it.

I am trying to install AMD drivers for my card on Ubuntu server 14.04 (for a ethereum miner).

I followed this tutorial from AMD www2.ati.com

What I did was the following:

I installed Ubuntu server and connected via ssh from my windows machine.

I checked my Ubuntu version, also checked that it was 64 bit.

I checked my graphics card version: 

lspci -nn | grep VGA -> Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tonga PRO [Radeon R9 285/380] [1002:6939] (rev f1)

I go to the amd website to download the drivers. they should be under ​​​Radeon™ R9 200, R7 200, HD 7000, HD 6000, and HD 5000 Series, I go to the Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit link support.amd.com.

I download the first one (don't know why there are so many) using wget

The problem comes when I try to unpackit (if it's the right word) using the following command:

sudo dpkg -i fglrx_15.302-0ubuntu1_amd64_ub_14.01.deb

I am given an error:

dpkg-deb: error: `fglrx_15.302-0ubuntu1_amd64_ub_14.01.deb' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing archive fglrx_15.302-0ubuntu1_amd64_ub_14.01.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
fglrx_15.302-0ubuntu1_amd64_ub_14.01.deb

I am not able to fix this, please help me. Thank you very much.

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Trantidon
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    Tt looks like the DEB is corrupt. It's much easier to just install fglrx using apt-get though: sudo apt-get install fglrx. – TheWanderer Jul 27 '16 at 19:45
  • THANK YOU! it seems to be working, now my mining software detects the card, hopefully it will work as it does in windows. I am so happy and thankful this kind of sites exists, thank you very much again. – Trantidon Jul 27 '16 at 19:50
  • I'll post it as an answer then :). – TheWanderer Jul 27 '16 at 19:58
  • Most likely you ended up saving HTML as the .deb filename, or your browser did something wrong with compression when downloading it. – dobey Jul 27 '16 at 21:27

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The error you got tells me the DEB you downloaded is most likely corrupt. However, you don't need to go through the whole driver choosing thing from AMD; you can just install the driver using apt-get.

Run sudo apt-get install fglrx, reboot and you'll have the correct graphics driver.

TheWanderer
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