Hi john, You should also have a backup here: /var/backups/dpkg.status.0
so the command to move it would be: *sudo cp /var/backups/dpkg.status.0 /var/lib/dpkg/status* on my system this is only 3 days old (ie before I updated today) Matt On 6 March 2011 12:06, John MM <scoundrel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/03/11 14:50, Grant Sewell wrote: > > Unfortunately /var/lib/dpkg/status is quite an important file and (as > far as I am aware) there is no real way to re-generate it. Essentially > it holds details of each package that's installed, and those that have > been installed and removed (but not purged), etc, etc. > > You may be able to get back to a semi-usable system is the > file /var/lib/dpkg/status-old is still present - it is (obviously) an > older version of the file so it may not be completely up to date, but > if you duplicate that you **should** get a usable system. > > Rule #1: Unless **you** are 100% certain on what you are doing, > never**delete** a file on your system that someone else tells you to delete. > Renaming the file is almost always good enough, and at least if you > rename it you have a chance of renaming it back again. > > So, try this: > $ sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status > > Grant > > > Hi, thank you for your message, I really appreciate it. Well, it looks like > its not going to work, I used the command you gave me, and I still get the > > 'InstallArchives failed' > > I get this message when trying to install from synaptic. > > 'E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libbz2-1.0'.Please see > man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) > > > I take it the only way now is to fresh install? > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >
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