Re: install dpkg without dpkg

[Miguel Griffa <mgriffa@technisys.com.ar>]

mmm... in your opinion would it be better to
tar data and cfg
and reinstall?
I'm somewhat afraid of cfg...

but it's good to consider that it may be easier that.
thanks

At 06:49 p.m. 26/07/01 +0200, Daniel Faller wrote:
> On Thursday 26 July 2001 18:48, Miguel Griffa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >       I posted a similar msg few days ago, and having no response, I 
> reformule
> > :)
> >
> > My woody system got severrr FS damage, and lots of binaries are broken
> > (including  apt, dpkg...)
> > how can I install dpkg and apt ?
> > also, how can I reinstall all installed packages?
>
> Just some thoughts, not really concrete, but probably it helps:
>
> Try to get some statically linked versions of dpkg, usually installation cd's
> have some (-> Read the install file). Perhaps you can build static versions
> yourshelf.
>
> Extract it on another (working) installation (dpkg -x ......), and just copy
> the executables to the damaged one.
>
> It is possible that a clean reinstall (after backing up configuraion files)
> is much less work, then reinstalling everything on this broken system.
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
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