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Re: Question: How do I recover /var/lib/dpkg/info/



On Wednesday 21 July 2004 3:35 pm, Stephan Witoszynskyj wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a problem: somehow my /var/lib/dpkg/info/ got corrupted (it
> seems that there were some file system problems). Now I need to restore
> the files that were in there. I know which debs were installed, so in
> principle I just need to extract them from the deb files. My question is
> how do I do that (in a systematic way).
>
> I hope this is enough information.
>
> Regards,
>   Stephan

You could reinstall the packages, using dpkg -i packagename.  That should, 
among other things, put the correct files in /var/lib/dpkg/info/

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