okay, so i'm starting to get my fingers wetter and wetter in linux. I'm attempting to mess around with the icecast streaming package. I got the GZiped dpkg and slapped it on the empeg. After i unzipped it, i got two directories, "usr" and "var", the contents of which i copied to the appropriate directories (bin, sbin, etc..) Sooo...i'm assuming that would be the correct way to install it given that i'm flying by guesses here. After that i attempted to dpkg the icecast .deb package and i get the following error...

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

any help would be appreciated...

OR...is someone else already working on this. I know there were threads about it and hamzy actually got it working... but they've been stagnant for a while... Hamzy... if your listening, what's the status?


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