mitchellkrogza
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8 years ago Never mind please close, seem to have solved this by running command line as:
sudo -u www-data -- wp vp clone --name=staging
Then it does not generate the error anymore. Maybe just note on your install notes that the .deb package cannot be installed under command line.
I found the fix to my problem here: https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/issues/2098
Hi there, what's up with this ???
$ sudo dpkg -i php-wpcli_0.24.0_all.deb
dpkg-deb: error: 'php-wpcli_0.24.0_all.deb' is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing archive php-wpcli_0.24.0_all.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: php-wpcli_0.24.0_all.deb
Installation instructions not making sense at all, installed it via your recommended method but then any attempt to run it warns me " YIKES! It looks like you're running this as root" ... but if I do not run it as root then it complains about permission problems.
No way to switch to become the www-data user because that account by default does not allow any login. I can run it under my admin user account but of course I am admin and therefore root so once again "YIKES! It looks like you're running this as root".