On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:41:53AM +0100, Yann Vernier wrote:
> You need the info directory. Here's a listing of subdirectories
> to /var/lib/dpkg (on my system):
> /var/lib/dpkg/info
> /var/lib/dpkg/updates
> /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives
> /var/lib/dpkg/methods
> /var/lib/dpkg/methods/dis
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:24:38PM -0800, Drew Parsons wrote:
> And when I try to reinstall from dselect, it proceeds to download all the
> files, but then as soon as it tries to unpack them, it says
>
> Unpacking ldso (from .../ldso_1.9.11-5_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/a
Ouch! I need help!
I just accidentally deleted /var/lib/dpkg (don't ask), and now dpkg (and
hence dselect) doesn't have a clue what I've got installed.
And to make things worse, apt-get calmly thinks everything is in perfect
order, and says
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove an
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