On 2001-09-15 04:23:17+0200, Wessel Dankers wrote: > > * how do I get dpkg to check the manifest list of the installed packages > > against the files installed, and reinstall the missing ones? *
> find /var/lib/dpkg/info -name '*.list' | sort | uniq | while read f > do if [ ! -e "$f" ]; then echo "$f is missing";fi;done Sorry, that should be: find /var/lib/dpkg/info -name '*.list' | xargs cat | sort | uniq | while read f do if [ ! -e "$f" ]; then echo "$f is missing";fi;done It doesn't take diversions into account, so be sure to check /var/lib/dpkg/diversions as well. -- Wessel Dankers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> working as designed
