Re: made rpm package, broke dpkg [SOLVED]
On Friday 25 March 2005 10:23 pm, Pollywog wrote:
> I made an rpm of dpkg for another system and an unexpected thing happened.
> Checkinstall actually installed the rpm package I made and now when I use
> dpkg I get:
>
> dpkg: failed to open package info file `/usr/lib/db/status' for reading: No
> such file or directory
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>
> I will probably need to reinstall Debian, but is there a way around that?
> I should have known this would happen, but I guess I did not think enough
> before trying to make the rpm (it was for another system, not this one).
Well I found out there was a backup copy of the status file and after fixing a
few things I got that to work, so I dodged a bullet (having to reinstall
Debian). Debian is pretty easy to install nowadays, but it's all the
additional software like games and non-Debian software that takes longer to
install and configure.
8)
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