> You said in your earlier message that you upgraded another machine
> with the same version, right?
> Was it the same file, or did each machine download its own copy?
> If different files, do they match?
Trying new package files doesn't change anything. Somewhere in it's caching,
dpkg remembers the bad package.
The deb files I have now have different md5sum values.
>
> If those ideas don't work, you can try rebuilding by hand just to
> get things working again.
Everything works, it's the ability to make changes that I've lost.
>
> In this latter case, you probably would still need to trick
> dpkg into thinking that it was installed the right way.
> Look under /var for dpkg's database. I haven't poked around
> enough to point you more directly, but I trashed my /var
> partition a year ago and lost my package database, among other
> things.
That's what I'm asking about. I don't know where to make changes so dpkg
will accept the new deb file.
