Re: heavy dpkg problem
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:41:28AM +0100, Florian Attenberger wrote:
> My dpkg does not work any more: "/var/lib/dpkg/status not available".
> I can't install any packages any more.
If you're lucky, there are still backups of it in /var/lib/dpkg/ ; look for
"status-old", "status.yesterday.0", "status.yesterday.1.gz". Copy the most
recent one (if necessary, after unzipping) to "status", and things should
work again.
HTH,
Ray
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