Re: eeek!! I deleted /var/lib/var !!

[Drew Parsons <dfparsons@ucdavis.edu>]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:41:53AM +0100, Yann Vernier wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks.  That helped a little.  I then got a different error:
dpkg not installed: cannot determine epoch

I had to install dpkg manually using -force-depends, and now dselect seems
to be handling the rest of the packages adequately.

Thanks for the tip!

Drew

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