On Wednesday 29 September 2004 20:29, Bradley Alexander wrote: > Got a quick apt question. I had a DIMM go bad in my sid system, and > thanks to having to hard reset it during troubleshooting, a couple of > filesystems got trashed. > > I removed the bad DIMM, and was able to rebuild the filesystems > (reiserfs). However, a slew of files (700+) got put in lost+found. Since > the bulk of them were in /, it was mainly Debian packages. > > In order to make things right again, I ran debsums -s, and got all of the > packages that either had missing files or bad md5sums on the files. > > Once I had my list, I did the following: > > [defiant ~]# apt-get install --ignore-missing --reinstall `cat deblist` > In spiite of the --ignore-missing (many are older versions of packages > that _should_ have been removed when the newer versions were installed), > I got stuff like: > > Reinstallation of automake is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. > Reinstallation of epan is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. > Reinstallation of gnapster is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. > Reinstallation of gtkhtml1.1 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. > ... > Reinstallation of libgtkhtml1.1-3 is not possible, it cannot be > downloaded. Reinstallation of libgtkhtml1.1-data is not possible, it > cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libhdf5-serial is not possible, > it cannot be downloaded. Package libid3-3.7-13 is not available, but is > referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is > missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source > E: Package libid3-3.7-13 has no installation candidate > > Is there a way to get around the messages above without individually > removing them from the apt-get list (and the system)? And why doesn't > --ignore-missing seem to work? > -- > --Brad
Did you do an apt-get update first? If so, are you sure that the errors you're seeing are from the --ignore-missing and not from the --reinstall flag? What I mean is, --reinstall says to "Re-Install packages that are already installed and at the newest version." If a package can't be downloaded, it isn't at the newest version, so reinstall probably shouldn't work. Ignore missing seems more geared towards new packages. The combination may not be trying to do what you think it is, but a developer would be able to answer that for sure. The error message about libid3-3.7-13 indicates either a packaging error, or your not up to date. Also, it could be that package is in a different repository, which is not in your sources.list file. Hope that helps, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
