Supriyo Chatterjea <supriyo_chatterjea@yahoo.com.sg> writes: > dpkg: failed to open package info file > /var/lib/dpkg/status You can just touch that file into existence and go from there. Better would be to use alien to convert the deb to an rpm http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/ I'll refrain from repeating my answer two more times. :) Guy