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On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:47:53PM -0700, Henry House wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:19:58PM -0700, Nick Donnelly wrote: > > I still have an intact /var/lib/dpkg/status. > > What should my next command be? apt-get install --reinstall=20 `dpkg --get-selections | awk '/[^e]install$/ { print $1 }'` That should do it... since you say you have status the stuff inside the back quotes will get a complete list of everything currently marked as installed, and have apt-get reinstall them. Let me know if that doesn't work... > * I believe Mike has a post in the archives somewhere about the excellent > trick of recovering a missing /var/lib/dpkg by exploiting Debian's > requirement that all packages must have an entry in /usr/share/doc. I think there have been a few items like this on the list, but most people have blown away /var/lib/dpkg ... so the step about wouldn't=20 have been suggested. :) --=20 GPG key: http://simons-clan.com/~msimons/gpg/msimons.asc Fingerprint: 524D A726 77CB 62C9 4D56 8109 E10C 249F B7FA ACBE --7lMq7vMTJT4tNk0a Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+2uKS4Qwkn7f6rL4RAv3FAJ44DVydyG8Aq4LYU9dDF/7OU1zImQCeNDOV W0aeXl70Rqi9/FnvzadYMk4= =1owv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7lMq7vMTJT4tNk0a-- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech