Re: How do I recreate the file /var/lib/dpkg/available ?

[Stephen Rueger <stephen.rueger@rechnerpost.org>]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 07:26:09AM +0100, Klaus Ade Johnstad wrote:
> I "accidentally" deleted the files /var/lib/dpkg/available and
> /var/lib/dpkg/available.old (they were huge), now I need to recreate
> them again, becasue I can't install anything without them, even 'dpkg
> -l' turns up with nothing. I've looked into the different man pages of
> dpkg and apt, but haven't found a solution.

run 'dselect update'

mfg,

Stephen Rüger

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