I used command
sudo dpkg -x paho-mqtt-c-dev_1.3.0-r0_armhf.deb
and got error message:
dpkg-deb: error: archive 'paho-mqtt-c-dev_1.3.0-r0_armhf.deb' has
premature member 'control.tar.xz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up
How come?
I used command
sudo dpkg -x paho-mqtt-c-dev_1.3.0-r0_armhf.deb
and got error message:
dpkg-deb: error: archive 'paho-mqtt-c-dev_1.3.0-r0_armhf.deb' has
premature member 'control.tar.xz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up
How come?
You can try to reinstall dpkg:
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall dpkg