Hi James Linder wrote:, > I have a customer who has indulged in extreme stupid stuff. ... > So I want to scrap and rebuild the package database. ... > Is there any sane (telling him to manually edit the status file is > not sane!) way to recover?
It may not be sane, but it's probably better than trying to "scrap and rebuild" the package database... I'm not even sure that's a thing, much less a sane thing. You don't even need to edit much in there, just go to the x11vnc package and take x11vnc-data out of the Depends / Recommends line (and possibly vice versa as well). Once you break the loop, dpkg and even apt will start working again. You can then use them to --reinstall the packages that are broken. Jiri -- Jiří Baum <j...@baum.com.au> Sabik Software Solutions Pty Ltd 0413 183 117 http://www.baum.com.au/sabik -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
