Re: need HELP

To: Eythan Weg <weg@gauss.wintek.com>
Cc: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: need HELP
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:08:41 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 20001115010841.B8966@cistron.nl>
Mail-followup-to: Eythan Weg <weg@gauss.wintek.com>, debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 87u29ey0tf.fsf@hilbert.infinity.web>; from weg@gauss.wintek.com on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 10:40:12AM -0500
References: <[🔎] 87u29ey0tf.fsf@hilbert.infinity.web>

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..

Wichert.

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