Debian Software command

[navsoftdev87]

I downloaded a deb file and run my dpkg -i filename

but this give me an error like dpkg command not found.
Please tell me why i am getting this error?

[Irithori]

You post in the redhat/fedora section.
redhat/fedora use rpms, not debs.

That may be a reason, why dpkg is not there.

[indiver]

Are you running the above command as root user?. If your are running command as root user and still error exists then you need to install dpkg package to solve this error. try apt-get install dpkg

[navsoftdev87]

Yes i am running this script as root .
I used this command apt-get install dpkg

its also giving me an error apt-get command not foung

[Irithori]

Which linux distribution do you have?

[sarmed]

Is there some problem with the installation? I'm assuming that the system is new. I have been using Debian 5 for a while, but apt-get is always installed in every installation. Never had such problems....

[daark.child]

apt-get, dpkg etc are commands for Debian based distributions and if they aren't found on your system, then you are probably not running a Debian based distribution. What you need to do is find the right packages for your distribution.