> Oh, boy! A friend just called me and said he did a > "rm -r /usr" by mistake. He did stop it after a while, > though, so that he can at least still do a little bit > on his system. > > Now, he asked me, what he should do in order to get back > to a stable system again. I suggested letting dselect > install all packages again. But how can he make dselect > think that the packages aren't installed yet??
I solved an ugly problem like this a while back. I believe the solution was to make /var/lib/dpkg/available an empty file. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
