Re: APT/dpkg info file missing !!!

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:26:32PM -0400, Seneca wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 07:59:22PM -0400, Hamid wrote:
> > Now I want to get back to gdm (kdm keeps locking up my machine), but I 
> > get the following message:
> > "dpkg: failed to open package info file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' for 
> > reading: No such file or directory
> >  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)"
> > 
> > Does it mean I have to reinstall dpkg (which I do not know how) ?
> 
> No, you don't.  apt-get update will update /var/lib/dpkg/available,

'apt-get update' won't, but 'dselect update' will.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]