apt [strange error]
the other day i tried using dselect to upgrade as normal,
this is what i saw when trying to [I]nstall
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: The package checker needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an
archive for it.
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
Press enter to continue.
installation script returned error exit status 100.
Press <enter> to continue.
then i tried to use apt-get dist-upgrade and i got this
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: The package checker needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an
archive for it.
i tried using dpkg and it works fine, but i reinstalled dpkg and apt to
insure it wasnt a broken package, i asked on irc.debian.org and no one
could help... PLEASE help me get apt working
thanks
daniel
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