virtualbox6: debian: netbeans install issues: "dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable" and "pkg-deb: error: archive 'apache-netbeans_....deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up"

 

>PROBLEMS/SOLUTIONS

You desire to install Netbeans on a Debian O.S. using the VirtualBox v.6 because the VirtualBox v.7 fails on your current Windows 10 installation.

The first task is to download the Netbeans, and we usually do this using the last version, trying the following commands to install:

sudo apt install openjdk-17-jdk curl wget unzip

cd /home/USERNAME/Downloads

chmod 777 apache-netbeans_20-1_all.deb

dpkg -i apache-netbeans_20-1_all.deb

>PROBLEM #1

Then, the "dpkg" command throws the following error message:

dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable
dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable
dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable

>SOLUTION #1

scite /etc/profile &

export PATH=$PATH:/sbin

or

scite ~/.profile

export PATH=$PATH:/sbin

- Reboot and run dpkg command again, and you may get the problem #2.

>PROBLEM #2

Running the install command again:

dpkg -i apache-netbeans_20-1_all.deb

Returns:

pkg-deb: error: archive 'apache-netbeans_20-1_all.deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up

dpkg: error processing archive apache-netbeans_20-1_all.deb (--install):

 dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2

>SOLUTION #2

Remembering that VirtualBox v.6 is no longer maintained, we need to consider a possible downgrade.

If the last Netbeans version fails with the following procedure, download a previous version, until you get compatibility. In this procedure the attempt with the v.19 was enough.

Download the Netbeans , first apply alien command to make it compatible, then run dpkg as follow:

alien apache-netbeans_19-1_all.deb

dpkg -i apache-netbeans_19-1_all.deb

And... voilà!

Now, read to run Netbeans, and  on prompt do:

netbeans &

Note: if everything goes well, the installation set the netbeans command at:

/usr/bin/netbeans &

>ENV

Windows 10

VirtualBox 6

debian 10..12

netbeans 19..20