From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LmDJu-00052S-4k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:33:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34188E05E7; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f108.google.com (mail-qy0-f108.google.com [209.85.221.108]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04553E05E7 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk6 with SMTP id 6so3393247qyk.32 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:33:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Bl/0YYOEebk9vW0Zg3RQHafijokvN0i8ar16jhdHEX8=; b=VP6EsUnTrlCHJLvxHudbreLvJNvw+GZQJyaX5v+u/dLsVi6WQN3q67bYHLs0EHhW1Y jt9+asgNUgp8GsC4FI/THSu/36XnwmdqDQUxCzeKEb0TfFGdxRTaTT0T31o7VXthlPu8 0niFt22rXhnfuslzvRxqcXvTDFvPowgDlm7Hs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=RsB/8YYSSLZd8RhEkw0QJ66XyshCTii7HNT6+KR09EFE2u1RAJgiXjAq+Ub3BBA3+O a5lnHcpPWPk41PV0hFIW3ykEuyTe6jBqvOtFFJ8a3hJYvl9QCv+kzNLg4fxxSvq7mQrH JsN7ZSgsKvVFsR6E+ua1vk6FS6uQLiRUEeIfA= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.67.204 with SMTP id s12mr10177578qai.306.1237926836730; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:33:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49C93FAE.8000904@gmail.com> References: <49C92817.9000303@gmail.com> <200903242041.10197.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <49C92D37.2080809@gmail.com> <58965d8a0903241231s229d6cd9k8b4cc0d3306a8af8@mail.gmail.com> <49C93FAE.8000904@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:33:56 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 25f0b957cb15dab1 Message-ID: <58965d8a0903241333m27aaaedfn80daf665b5aad49f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6ceb639b-25bd-4bcd-820b-6f65386119fb X-Archives-Hash: 32c1738601cb74f801dc42396daddc58 2009/3/24 Alexander Pilipovsky : > Paul Hartman =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=D7(=CC=C1): > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky > wrote: > > > Alan McKinnon =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=D7(=CC=C1): > > I have no idea, but I imagine > > mkdir -p /var/lib/dpkg > touch /var/lib/dpkg/status > > would be a good first test. Did you even attempt that much? > > And why are you installing dpkg on a portage box? That looks like a vast > file > collision fsck-fest just waiting to happen > > > > I tried to > > mkdir -p /var/lib/dpkg > touch /var/lib/dpkg/status > touch /var/lib/dpkg/available > ln /sbin/update-rc /sbin/update-rc.d > and got a new error, heh > sh-3.2# dpkg -i nerolinux-3.5.0.1-x86.deb > dpkg: error processing nerolinux-3.5.0.1-x86.deb (--install): > package architecture (i386) does not match system () > Errors were encountered while processing: > nerolinux-3.5.0.1-x86.deb > > > Why not use the ebuild for app-cdr/nero? > > > > > I used nero in previous listing as example to install, but I get these > errors for any deb :( Well, a .deb is just a tar with special file names inside. You can untar it, then unpack the data.tar.gz and get the files and try to install it manually (in a worst case scenario) :) I haven't tried dpkg to install a .deb so I am of no use...