Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:48, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> root@not a tty[/]# apt-get install --reinstall xserver-common
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Sorry, re-installation of xserver-common is not possible, it \
> cannot be downloaded.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and \
> 0 not upgraded.
hmm, not sure why that would be, I suppose it could be related to the
recent security problems. The easiest thing to do is probably to grab
the .deb from http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/ and
install it with "dpkg -i"
--
Mark Roach
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