dpgk issues?

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trinladen · Post by **trinladen** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 10:39 pm

Not really sure if this belongs here but..... Im trying to un-pak a .deb file and not having much success. I get this error when i try :

RingoChen install # dpkg -i winex3_3.2-1.i386.deb
dpkg: can't mmap package info file `/usr/lib/db/status': No such device

However the other switches work fine on the .deb file. Any suggestions?

thanks

trin

Naughtyus · Post by **Naughtyus** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 8:05 am

I'm having the same problems with other .deb files as well.

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dpkg: failed to open package info file `/usr/lib/db/status' for reading: No such file or directory

Genone · Post by **Genone** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 8:26 am

I'd assume that it tries to access the debian package database which is of course not-existant on Gentoo.

trinladen · Post by **trinladen** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 2:05 am

Yes, I kinda figured that as well... I ordeal is that I really dont know about debian and how i should or if i can correct this .. do you?

thanks

Trin

moocha · Post by **moocha** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:05 am

Use the ar utility to unpack debs:

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ar xf yourfile.deb

jonaswidarsson · Post by **jonaswidarsson** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:54 pm

reviving an old thread.

So, the db is missing. But there must be a way to create it. I mean, when dowloading a deb, part of the intention is to have dpkg tracking it so it can be easily removed later, don't you think?

There must be a way.

kramer2718 · Post by **kramer2718** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:00 am

I too am having this problem. I'm not sure what good it is having an ebuild for dpkg if there is no means for creating `/usr/lib/db/status'.