Re: I broke apt and dpkg - need help

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Robert said:
>
> Help.  I just did a major patition reshuffle and I've wiped out
> /var/lib/apt  and also /var/cache/apt -- and now dpkg and apt are
> broken,  Can't reinstall them either.  Any suggestions or humorous
> comments welcome  :(

does not sound serious to me. the critical stuff is in /var/lib/dpkg.

you should just be able to re-create the directory structure:

drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Oct 23 18:21 /var/cache/apt
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         8192 Oct 23 18:21 /var/cache/apt/archives
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Jun 25 10:52 /var/lib/apt
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Aug 24 16:44 /var/lib/apt/lists
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 14 13:12
/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/

and try running apt-get update see what happens

nate