Palo Alto firewall - GlobalProtect Linux 'Reading package lists...Error!'

Please refer to the following installation guide for GlobalProtect Linux.
Download and Install the GlobalProtect App for Linux

• Symptoms

After you extract the files from the package (PanGPLinux-5.2.5-c46.tgz), you will install the package in Ubuntu or Kali (Debian) Linux with the following command, but you get an error as below.

sudo apt-get install ./GlobalProtect_deb-5.2.5.0-46.deb

analysisman@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install ./GlobalProtect_deb-5.2.5.0-46.deb

Reading package lists... Error!

E: read, still have 59 to read but none left

E: Error reading archive member header

E: Could not read meta data from ./GlobalProtect_deb-5.2.5.0-46.deb

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

or

analysisman@ubuntu:~/pkgs$ sudo apt-get install GlobalProtect_UI_deb-6.0.0.1-44.deb

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package GlobalProtect_UI_deb-6.0.0.1-44.deb

E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'GlobalProtect_UI_deb-6.0.0.1-44.deb'

E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'GlobalProtect_UI_deb-6.0.0.1-44.deb'

• Resolution

Use the following dpkg command instead of apt-get install.

sudo dpkg -i ./GlobalProtect_deb-5.2.5.0-46.deb

analysisman@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -i ./GlobalProtect_deb-5.2.5.0-46.deb

Selecting previously unselected package globalprotect.

(Reading database ... 104475 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to unpack .../GlobalProtect_deb-5.2.5.0-46.deb ...

Start installing gp...

Unpacking globalprotect (5.2.5-46) ...

Setting up globalprotect (5.2.5-46) ...

Enable gp service...

Starting gp service...

enable ping

net.ipv4.ping_group_range = 0 0

Create symlink for gp cli...

Starting gpa...

Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...