-----Original Message----- From: Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: rod peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
