well. what's the recommended way of installing the newest set of packages available to debian? has somebody somewhere an iso image of the unstable tree or do i have to install potato's diskset and then download each and every package i want from woody separately?
i can't do anything automatically because my debian box has a 56kb ppp0 connection and a machine on a T1 line i use occasionally has NT on it. or does somebody have any scripts to use with regular m$-ftp which do some automated downloading of requested packages? just don't want to go back to slink. as i begun using debian, slink was just declared 'stable'. and my home computer hasn't had any problems with bleeding edges yet... (not that debian bleeds :o) Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > 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. -- regards, odt // aim for the moon, if you miss you may hit a star
