"Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.com> writes: [...] > /var/lib/dpkg/status: > I *believe* that dpkg keeps a backup in /var/backups/dpkg.status* Oh yes! I suspect there's some cronjob that does it, rather than dpkg. But I'd not noticed that before. I agree with your comments about /var/lib/dpkg/info---that really looks hard to recover from. [...] -- Bruce Stephens Bruce.Stephens@MessagingDirect.com ACI Worldwide/MessagingDirect <URL:http://www.MessagingDirect.com/>