Errors trying to install Ubuntu 1804 using wget

[willie108]

Hello. I am running ubuntu-1804-bionic-v20201014 on Google Cloud.

I tried to install NoMachine using wget but I keep getting an error.

Can anyone suggest what I can do to get it installed?

 

w108@demo:~$ wget https://download.nomachine.com/download/6.9/Linux/nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb

–2020-10-18 04:28:49–  https://download.nomachine.com/download/6.9/Linux/nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb

Resolving download.nomachine.com (download.nomachine.com)… 83.222.232.25

Connecting to download.nomachine.com (download.nomachine.com)|83.222.232.25|:443… connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 302 Moved Temporarily

Location: https://www.nomachine.com [following]

–2020-10-18 04:28:50–  https://www.nomachine.com/

Resolving http://www.nomachine.com (www.nomachine.com)… 80.92.83.101, 80.92.83.98, 80.92.83.99

Connecting to http://www.nomachine.com (www.nomachine.com)|80.92.83.101|:443… connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK

Length: unspecified [text/html]

Saving to: ‘nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb’

nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb      [  <=>                                         ] 142.71K   393KB/s    in 0.4s

2020-10-18 04:28:52 (393 KB/s) – ‘nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb’ saved [146138]

w108@demo:~$ sudo apt install ./nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb

Reading package lists… Error!

E: Sub-process Popen returned an error code (2)

E: Encountered a section with no Package: header

E: Problem with MergeList /home/w108/nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb

E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

w108@demo:~$ sudo dpkg -i nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb

dpkg-deb: error: ‘nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb’ is not a Debian format archive

dpkg: error processing archive nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb (–install):

dpkg-deb –control subprocess returned error exit status 2

Errors were encountered while processing:

nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb

w108@demo:~$ md5sum nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb

a408a49249fb216cba97376d712d22a9  nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb

w108@demo:~$ curl https://download.nomachine.com/download/6.9/Linux/nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb -o nomachine_

6.9.2_1_amd64-new.deb

% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current

Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

100   154  100   154    0     0    200      0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:–   199

w108@demo:~$ md5sum nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64-new.deb

cfbeaf604823f038b8b46f0ac862b98c  nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64-new.deb

 

w108@demo:~$ sudo dpkg -i nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb

dpkg-deb: error: ‘nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb’ is not a Debian format archive

dpkg: error processing archive nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb (–install):

dpkg-deb –control subprocess returned error exit status 2

Errors were encountered while processing:

nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64.deb

w108@demo:~$ md5sum nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64-new.deb

cfbeaf604823f038b8b46f0ac862b98c  nomachine_6.9.2_1_amd64-new.deb

w108@demo:~$

[fisherman]

Hello,

You are trying to download old version not available for current download.

Please see the following forum post to download latest nomachine version
https://forums.nomachine.com/topic/my-successful-story-in-setting-up-nvidia-driver-on-aws#post-27729

[willie108]

Thanks! This worked

wget https://download.nomachine.com/free/linux/64/deb -O nomachine.deb

sudo apt install ./nomachine.deb

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