tcreek

After doing some more research, I don't think Mr. @scottwilliambeasley tested this guide he built. According to the README on dpkg, one of the requirements is pkg-config. Not many updates...

> With this, I'd like to respectfully iterate over a few points. > > Bugs exist in any kind of project. Even ones with the best intentions. > Most developers...

Just a little update. After some tinkering, the first .deb package was successfully installed

Well, don't waste your time. It is now broken beyond Debian 8. I tried and tried, but could never get it working based on this guide with Debian 10. I...

It's not a matter of "giving up." but a matter of reality. Unless you have deep knowledge of building Debian, it is going to fail. Look at all the posts...

I have completed LFS a few times over. The patches are in other sections

Looking, I am not seeing any "--reinstall" option for dpkg.

Update: I am getting them installed by changing the status back to not installed from installed, then reentering the install command

Okay got you. Your guide did not explicitly say one would get an error when trying to install. One other issue is the command you placed in there. `sed -ri...

It seems `sed -ri 's/(Package: libgcc1)/\1\nDescription: test\nMaintainer: test\nVersion: 2.19/' /var/lib/dpkg/status` needs to be updated. It appears to have corrupted the file /var/lib/dpkg/status >dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 25...