Hi Guy, Thanks for the help...but I've still got problems! I created the status file and touched it. But I was then told:
dpkg: failed to open package info file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' for reading: No such file of directory So I created the available file, touched it as well, and tried my luck...and this time I got the following error message: dpkg: 'start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH. dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin. So I ruled out using touch and went on to the next option you mentioned - Alien. I installed Alien using the instructions in INSTALL. And then I downloaded alien-extra.rpm which is supposed to have some stuff for running Alien on a RedHat system. Then when I ran rpm: #rpm --install alien-extra.rpm, this is what I got: error: failed dependencies: libncurses.so.3.0 is needed by alien-extra-6-4-1 But after a search, I found it to be in /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/. Creating a symbolic link to the file in /lib didn't help either. So I simply ignored the error and once again tried my luck: #./alien.pl -r libreadline4_4.1-1.deb And that gave me: Can't locate object method "new" via package "Alien::Package::Deb" at ./alien. line 321. So as you can see...I'm completely stumped! Are there any other alternatives left? Or will my worst nightmare come true? - Set up a another system using Debian *just* to get the library files out of the *.deb files!! :) My my....I had no idea that I would be spending an entire day trying to extract files out of a package! :) Thanks again for all the help! Regards, Supriyo --- Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Supriyo Chatterjea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > > dpkg: failed to open package info file > > /var/lib/dpkg/status > > You can just touch that file into existence and go > from there. > > Better would be to use alien to convert the deb to > an rpm > http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/ > > I'll refrain from repeating my answer two more > times. :) > > > Guy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Y! Pages - Search or browse for business listings. http://yp.yahoo.com.sg/
