lost sysvinit! What to do?

[Jeronimo Pellegrini <jeronimo@bigbross.org>]

Er... Hello.

I did a very stupid thing... Removed sysvinit from a potato box, and now 
dpkg doesn't run anymore:

~# dpkg --force-depends --unpack   /export/jeronimo/sysvinit_2.78-4.deb 
dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.


BTW, this is dpkg 1.9.17, from unstable...

So... Is there any chance I can install sysvinit again? I thought I could try

dpkg -x sysvinit_2.78-4.deb /

But I don't know if that would work... (Would it?)

Thanks a lot for any help!
J.

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