Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South

[Stefan O'Rear <stefanor@cox.net>]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 07:43:17PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
> On Thursday 26 August 2004 19:25, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> > catchsegv tar -cf foo.tar .bashrc
> I saw nothing at all.

Good!

Ok, try:

mkdir foox
cd foox
catchsegv tar -xf ../foo.tar

If you still don't see anything...

locate *.deb

Take the first one you see, and:

cd
mkdir debx
cd debx
catchsegv dpkg-deb -x /home/stefan/avifile-player_0.7.38.20030710-1_i386.deb .

Remember to substitute the .deb you found!

If it is successful, you will see no output, and:

~/debx %% ls -la
total 24k
drwxr-xr-x    3 stefan   stefan       4.0k Aug 26 19:59 .
drwxr-xr-x  175 stefan   stefan        16k Aug 26 19:59 ..
drwxr-xr-x    5 stefan   stefan       4.0k Jul 10  2003 usr
~/debx %% 

Again, report back...