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

[Alexander Pilipovsky]

Hi all!
I have emerged dpkg and tried to install deb package, but got error:
dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for
reading: No such file or directory
How to fix this problem?

Thanks!

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Alexander Pilipovsky aka Engraver