Dpkg Woes
Ok, if you read my previous email, you know I made a serious mistake and
accidently
deleted /var/lib/dpkg/status while I was cleaning out the old status files
to save some
space.
Obviously, dpkg now has no idea of what packages are installed on my
system, and
is broken.
Is there any way to generate a new status file from all the info, etc that
dpkg keeps
under /var/lib/dpkg?
Are their any good file recovery programs for debian, so that I might have
a chance of
recovering one of the status files, such as status.old or status.yesterday.0?
Or am I just plain looking at reinstalling everything from scratch? Last I
remember my
status files(s) were about 3.5 megs each, as I am running a fully updated
potato
system.
Any help would be most appreiciated.
Todd
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