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Re: how can I install the dpkg tool?



On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 04:41:04PM +0800, Squirrel wrote:
> I have done as you directed .But when I install  .deb packages,it always
> says  "failed to open package info file "/var/lib/dpkg/status" for
> reading:no such file or directory".Can you help me?

You'll probably want to touch /var/lib/dpkg/status.

Can you give a bit more information about what you're doing, though? It
sounds rather dangerous. Installing .debs verbatim on a non-Debian
system could break it, as dpkg will keep track of file conflicts with
other packages but not with random files lying around from an earlier
installation.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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