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| From: | Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory | ||
| Date: | Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:42:42 | ||
| Message-Id: | 200903242041.10197.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory by Alexander Pilipovsky |
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| 1 | On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:36:07 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: |
| 2 | > Hi all! |
| 3 | > I have emerged dpkg and tried to install deb package, but got error: |
| 4 | > dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for |
| 5 | > reading: No such file or directory |
| 6 | > How to fix this problem? |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > Thanks! |
| 9 | |
| 10 | I have no idea, but I imagine |
| 11 | |
| 12 | mkdir -p /var/lib/dpkg |
| 13 | touch /var/lib/dpkg/status |
| 14 | |
| 15 | would be a good first test. Did you even attempt that much? |
| 16 | |
| 17 | And why are you installing dpkg on a portage box? That looks like a vast file |
| 18 | collision fsck-fest just waiting to happen |
| 19 | |
| 20 | -- |
| 21 | alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory | Alexander Pilipovsky <alexander.pilipovsky@×××××.com> |