On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:08:41AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Eythan Weg wrote: > > What can be done to make dpkg working again? Or > > at least usable to some degree. > > touch /var/lib/dpkg/status > touch /var/lib/dpkg/available > mkdir /var/lib/dpkg/info > dpkg --force-depends -i dpkg_1.6.15.deb > > and reinstall everything using --force-depends. It might be easier > to reinstall the machine from scratch.. for this you can use the dirnames in /usr/doc/* Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux Linuk is like a wigwam: no Windows, no Gates, Apache inside
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