Re: using dpkg
-----Original Message-----
From: Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>
To: petersr@uniserve.com <petersr@uniserve.com>
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: using dpkg
>Hi Rod,
>
>Cat you send the output of the following commands?
>
>[bash]$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/status
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 668800 Feb 7 02:19 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>[bash]$ whoami; dpkg -i <filename.deb>
>mblevin
>dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
>dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
>dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
>dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
>dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
>NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and
/sbin.
>
>Thanks,
>-Mitch
>
>In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
>> I have been logged in as root.
>>
>> Now what?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: M.C. Vernon <mcv21@cus.cam.ac.uk>
>> To: Rod Peters <spugnoid@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>> Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 2:24 AM
>> Subject: Re: using dpkg
>>
>>
>> >
>> >> When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb)
>> >> I always get something like this:
>> >> cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status
>> >
>> >You need to run dpkg -i as root.
>
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