On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:51:55PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > i just found out, that i've accidently erased all the contents > > of /var/lib. the machine works almost fine, but what exactly am > > i missing at the moment, besides that i cannot use dpkg ? is the > > only option to fix this to re-install the distribution? or can > > somebody tell me the normal subtrees of /var/lib and i might be > > able to fix it manually?
I think it sounds like reinstall time. > try "dpkg -S /var/lib" and then "dpkg -i ..." then shown packages once > more. that way you'll avoid reinstalling the whole distro. Um, all the dpkg database is stored in /var/lib, so that won't work. Probably. -- Alisdair McDiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
