On Apr 3, Kevin J Poorman wrote > Ok I think I have figured out what happened to my dpkg... I lost the file > dir or dir.lock that is the database in /usr/info. does anyone know how I > can force the creation/recreation of this file? Does any one know the > format of this file?? You can't lose 'dir.lock'. It's present only when install-info is writing to your /usr/info/dir file. If you lost /usr/info/dir, there's unfortunately no easy way to recreate it. If you want a quick fix that lets you install packages, just create an empty /usr/info/dir (by running 'touch /usr/info/dir' as root) and install-info should be happy. If you want to restore /usr/info/dir, do the following: cd /var/lib/dpkg/info fgrep install-info *.postinst This will print out a list of all the post-installation scripts which run install-info. Then just run all these install-info commands by hand. The other alternative is to reinstall the packages which provide info files. Christian
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