On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:41:28AM +0100, Florian Attenberger wrote: > My dpkg does not work any more: "/var/lib/dpkg/status not available". > I can't install any packages any more.
If you're lucky, there are still backups of it in /var/lib/dpkg/ ; look for "status-old", "status.yesterday.0", "status.yesterday.1.gz". Copy the most recent one (if necessary, after unzipping) to "status", and things should work again. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
