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

[Gregory Guthrie <guthrie@mum.edu>]

Bravo!!

Thanks.

Gregory

At 09:50 PM 06/08/2001 -0400, Paul Wright wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 15:53:14 CDT,
> Gregory wrote:
>
> > Help.
> > 
> >.... 
> > 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
>
>
>
> -- 
> Paul T. Wright <paul@cvanet.com>
> -currently seeking employment-

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