Re: What to do after "rm -r /usr"?

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

> Oh, boy!  A friend just called me and said he did a
> "rm -r /usr" by mistake.  He did stop it after a while,
> though, so that he can at least still do a little bit
> on his system.
> 
> Now, he asked me, what he should do in order to get back
> to a stable system again.  I suggested letting dselect
> install all packages again.  But how can he make dselect
> think that the packages aren't installed yet??


I solved an ugly problem like this a while back.  I believe the solution was 
to make /var/lib/dpkg/available an empty file.

rick


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