Re: Lost sources.list - can it be recovered?

[mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:24:42PM -0600, Neil Glenn wrote:
> I thought I had built up a nice sources.list over the months. I went for
> the draw, but too quickly shot myself in the foot. Ouch! Now I have no
> sources.list file. (And I was not practising safe computing - no
> backup!)
> 
> Is there a way to get it back from apt's cache? or perhaps from some
> dpkg info? I was guessing there would be something like that but am
> unable to find it in all normal places I look.
> 
Take a gander in /var/lib/apt/lists/ perhaps?

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