Re: eeek!! I deleted /var/lib/var !!
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:24:38PM -0800, Drew Parsons wrote:
> And when I try to reinstall from dselect, it proceeds to download all the
> files, but then as soon as it tries to unpack them, it says
>
> Unpacking ldso (from .../ldso_1.9.11-5_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ldso_1.9.11-5_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
> unable to create updated files list file for package ldso: No such file or
> directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ldso_1.9.11-5_i386.deb
You need the info directory. Here's a listing of subdirectories
to /var/lib/dpkg (on my system):
/var/lib/dpkg/info
/var/lib/dpkg/updates
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives
/var/lib/dpkg/methods
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/disk
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt
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