Got a quick apt question. I had a DIMM go bad in my sid system, and thanks to having to hard reset it during troubleshooting, a couple of filesystems got trashed.
I removed the bad DIMM, and was able to rebuild the filesystems (reiserfs). However, a slew of files (700+) got put in lost+found. Since the bulk of them were in /, it was mainly Debian packages. In order to make things right again, I ran debsums -s, and got all of the packages that either had missing files or bad md5sums on the files. Once I had my list, I did the following: [defiant ~]# apt-get install --ignore-missing --reinstall `cat deblist` In spiite of the --ignore-missing (many are older versions of packages that _should_ have been removed when the newer versions were installed), I got stuff like: Reinstallation of automake is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of epan is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gnapster is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of gtkhtml1.1 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. ... Reinstallation of libgtkhtml1.1-3 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libgtkhtml1.1-data is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Reinstallation of libhdf5-serial is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Package libid3-3.7-13 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package libid3-3.7-13 has no installation candidate Is there a way to get around the messages above without individually removing them from the apt-get list (and the system)? And why doesn't --ignore-missing seem to work? -- --Brad ======================================================================== Bradley M. Alexander | IA Analyst, SysAdmin, Security Engineer | storm [at] tux.org ======================================================================== Key fingerprints: DSA 0x54434E65: 37F6 BCA6 621D 920C E02E E3C8 73B2 C019 5443 4E65 RSA 0xC3BCBA91: 3F 0E 26 C1 90 14 AD 0A C8 9C F0 93 75 A0 01 34 ======================================================================== As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
