Re: rebuliding dpkg database
Thorsten Manegold wrote:
> As someone already asked about problems with dpkg after dataloss...
>
> Is there a way to rebuild the dpkg database if it gets corrupted?
> With rpm there was a way to rebuild if you had some data still
> intact.
This is not necessary with debian, the database is a plain text file.
/var/lib/dpkg/status should contain a list of a lot of packages, including
those ytou have installed. If it seems to be truncated or corrupted, keep a
bakcup of it and try copying status.yesterday.0 over top of it.
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