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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
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 19:53:15
Message-Id: 58965d8a0903241231s229d6cd9k8b4cc0d3306a8af8@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory by Alexander Pilipovsky
1 On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky
2 <alexander.pilipovsky@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > Alan McKinnon ÎÁÐÉÓÁ×(ÌÁ):
4 >
5 > I have no idea, but I imagine
6 >
7 > mkdir -p /var/lib/dpkg
8 > touch /var/lib/dpkg/status
9 >
10 > would be a good first test. Did you even attempt that much?
11 >
12 > And why are you installing dpkg on a portage box? That looks like a vast
13 > file
14 > collision fsck-fest just waiting to happen
15 >
16 >
17 >
18 > I tried to
19 >
20 > mkdir -p /var/lib/dpkg
21 > touch /var/lib/dpkg/status
22 > touch /var/lib/dpkg/available
23 > ln /sbin/update-rc /sbin/update-rc.d
24 > and got a new error, heh
25 > sh-3.2# dpkg -i nerolinux-3.5.0.1-x86.deb
26 > dpkg: error processing nerolinux-3.5.0.1-x86.deb (--install):
27 > package architecture (i386) does not match system ()
28 > Errors were encountered while processing:
29 > nerolinux-3.5.0.1-x86.deb
30
31 Why not use the ebuild for app-cdr/nero?

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