Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:01:06 -0500,
Mark Roach <mrroach@okmaybe.com> wrote in message
<[🔎] 1070312466.5499.48.camel@flmrroach.okmaybe.com>:
> 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"
..drat, I need sleep now, I got up on Sunday noon GMT, I'll
just fry another cd and start over "tomorrow". ;-)
..if anyone comes up with an "apt-get --steamroll-in-the-damn-thing"
line in the next 15 hours or so, I'll be happy to try it. ;-)
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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