On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:24:38PM -0800, Drew Parsons wrote: > And when I try to reinstall from dselect, it proceeds to download all the > files, but then as soon as it tries to unpack them, it says > > Unpacking ldso (from .../ldso_1.9.11-5_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ldso_1.9.11-5_i386.deb > (--unpack): > unable to create updated files list file for package ldso: No such file or > directory > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/ldso_1.9.11-5_i386.deb
You need the info directory. Here's a listing of subdirectories to /var/lib/dpkg (on my system): /var/lib/dpkg/info /var/lib/dpkg/updates /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives /var/lib/dpkg/methods /var/lib/dpkg/methods/disk /var/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt
