Re: Help; apt-get trashed system, how to recover

[Paul Wright <paul@cvanet.com>]

On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 15:53:14 CDT, Gregory wrote:

> Help.
> 
> I am running Debian 2.2, with upgrade to Woody from debian.org via FTP.
> 
> I have been running well for over 5 months without reboot(!) or maintenance.
> 
> I went to fetch a new package, and my system decided it wanted to get 108 
> MB of updates. It failed on a bunch of them, I tried again, and again, and 
> then a force (-f) option as suggested by apt-get, to no avail.
> 
> Perl seems to have kludged itself..
> 
> The details follow, how do I recover?!
> 

Try "apt-get --fix-missing install perl-base perl", if that doesn't work 
try "apt-get --fix-missing install perl-base perl".  One of those should 
work. YMMV.

-ptw



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