On Wednesday 21 July 2004 3:35 pm, Stephan Witoszynskyj wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a problem: somehow my /var/lib/dpkg/info/ got corrupted (it > seems that there were some file system problems). Now I need to restore > the files that were in there. I know which debs were installed, so in > principle I just need to extract them from the deb files. My question is > how do I do that (in a systematic way). > > I hope this is enough information. > > Regards, > Stephan
You could reinstall the packages, using dpkg -i packagename. That should, among other things, put the correct files in /var/lib/dpkg/info/
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