Re: [gentoo-user] dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 24 March 2009 22:16:46 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote:
> Why not use the ebuild for app-cdr/nero?
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>  I used nero in previous listing as example to install, but I get these
> errors for any deb :(

I find it's useful to look at error messages. It often tells you what is 
wrong:

dpkg: error processing nerolinux-3.5.0.1-x86.deb (--install):
 package architecture (i386) does not match system ()

dpkg does nto want ot install that .deb on your system as the arch is wrong. 
It makes sense, it wouldn't install sparc binaries either. Gentoo doesn't have 
an i386 arch, it has x86 and amd64.

But I still feel your whole approach is wrong. Two package managers on one 
system? Therein lies madness, and file collisions that will leave you 
scratching your head wondering wtf?

The solution is simple:

alien

I know it doesn't do the whole pre- and post- install thing right, but that 
doesn't matter as they probably aren't suitable on gentoo anyway. You want the 
binaries and a way to extract them.

-- 
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