Re: using dpkg

["rod peters" <petersr@uniserve.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org>
To: rod peters <petersr@uniserve.com>
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: using dpkg


>rod peters wrote:
>> okay, here's what I get.
>> 
>> ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/status
>> --comes back as:
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 423826 jan 31 16:01 (don't ask)
>> /var/lib/dpkg/status
>> 
>> whoami; dpkg -i <filename.deb>
>> --comes back as:
>> root
>> dpkg: failed to open package info file
>> '/var/lib/status' for reading: no such file or directory
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Are you sure this isn't /var/lib/dpkg/status?
>Also, which version of dpkg do you have?
>(you can get this with "dpkg --status dpkg |egrep '^Version:'" )
>
>-Mitch
>

yes, I meant to type /var/lib/dpkg/status

my version of dpkg is:
1.4.0.23.2