apt-move doesn't seem to function

I could be missing some vital command or three, but from what I understand from reading the man's :-   1.    I download packages with dselect/apt-get and they go into /var/apt/cache ( I think that is where, regardless, the standard location)   2.    I can move those packages into a local mi

HELP - dpkg status file was lost

HELP !   All was going along swimmingly until I got a segmentation fault in a dselect operation, which resulted in me having to press the dreaded reset switch.   After having repaired the partition, and losing a few crashed sectors along the way . . .   I lost the status file for dpkg/dselec