#nod32

As part of some mail filter testing, I needed to install ESET Mail Security onto a Debian 4.0 Etch VPS running on Virtuozzo. As a side-note, I found that the install package for ESET’s Gateway Filter, Mail Security, and File Server Security for Linux is all the exact same package; the functionality is basically just controlled/activated by means of licensing the appropriate component. Anyway, the download comes as an installation script called esets.i386.deb.bin. Running that script outputs a license agreement that you have to accept, produces a .deb package called esets.i386.deb, and outputs instructions on how to install the .deb package by using dpkg and import the license file. The .deb package installed just fine on another Debian test box, but when I attempted to run dpkg –i esets.i386.deb on the Virtuozzo VPS, tar squawked at me that it could not open /dev/stdin and the installation bailed: hostname:/usr/local/src/eset# dpkg -i esets-3.0.11.i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package esets. (Reading database ... 24639 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking esets (from esets-3.0.11.i386.deb) ... Setting up esets (3.0.11) ... Unpacking esets modules ... tar: /dev/stdin: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now dpkg: error processing esets (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: esets…