I'm in a strange situation, something (the last program I installed was fligh gear) caused my /var/lib/dpkg/status file to be deleted. Meaning apt/dpkg/dselect is unable to determin what packages are installed. I managed to manually write in the details of debconf and dpkg so that packages would actaully install, but now the problem is that the system can't tell that I have an up to date version of a package already present i.e. when I apt-get install an X based app it thinks it also needs xf86, so downloads it, but when installing it finds my already existing conf files, so promts me if I want to overwrite. Is there a easy solution to this -- or will I have to go round downloading/installing packages I already have installed just to update the /var/lib/dpkg/status file? I'm running sid. -- Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------ -0) Hereward Cooper Somerset, UK /\\ zadok@phreaker.net GPG: 1E1D0C80 zadok.ddts.net _\_v ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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