On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > I'm in a strange situation, something (the last program I installed was fligh > gear) caused my /var/lib/dpkg/status file to be deleted. Meaning > apt/dpkg/dselect is unable to determin what packages are installed. I managed > to > manually write in the details of debconf and dpkg so that packages would > actaully install, but now the problem is that the system can't tell that I > have > an up to date version of a package already present i.e. when I apt-get install > an X based app it thinks it also needs xf86, so downloads it, but when > installing it finds my already existing conf files, so promts me if I want to > overwrite. > > Is there a easy solution to this -- or will I have to go round > downloading/installing packages I already have installed just to update the > /var/lib/dpkg/status file?
Look in /var/backups. Also, look at /var/lib/dpkg/status.old, and status.yesterday, etc.
