[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: what is /var/lib/dpkg/available for?



On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 05:43:55PM +0200, Przemyslaw Brojewski wrote:
> Recently a hard drive failure hit my box. Among few other files,
> there were /var/lib/dpkg/available and available-old lost.
> 
> I've simply did touch /var/lib/dpkg/available and
> apt-get is happy with it.

Run 'dselect update' instead.

> The question is: what is still broken?

'dpkg -p <packagename>', dselect, grep-available if you have it, and
tasksel at least.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



Reply to: