Re: apt-get Seems To Have Gone South
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Joris Huizer wrote:
> As far as I saw you didn't get the problem fixed yet so maybe you don't
> mind me suggesting this one...
> tar is broken; maybe you should try and compile tar from source (without
> using the malfunctioning apt/dpkg tools) -- like, try and get the latest
> source from unstable by browser, compile, install -- that's it; after
> that everything should run again
This isn't a bad idea, assuming that it's correct.
However, it's also possible that dpkg itself is baked. Fortunately, you
can download the dpkg source package (which is currently
dpkg_1.10.23.tar.gz, at least for unstable) and install it using the
ordinary ./configure; make; su; make install routine, and by default it
pops dpkg in /usr/bin/dpkg, right where apt-get expects to find it.
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