On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:46:50PM +0800, Supriyo Chatterjea wrote: > I've got this libncurses5-dev_5.0-6.0potato1.deb file > that I need to use on my system which runs on RedHat > 6.2.
I don't think this is a good idea.
> I installed "dpkg" successfully but when I enter the
> command:
>
> #dpkg -i libncurses5-dev_5.0-6.0potato1.deb
>
> I get the following error message:
>
> dpkg: failed to open package info file
> /var/lib/dpkg/status
touch /var/lib/dpkg/status
If you only need the files, you can
ar -x libncurses5-dev_5.0-6.0potato1.deb
and you get a tar.gz with all files...
Gruss
Grisu
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