Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

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Subject: Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)
From: Michael Spang <mike@midgard.no-ip.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:21:56 -0500
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seeker5528@comcast.net wrote:

My suggestion, rather than messing around with editing and such, would be to do:

dpkg --clear-avail

: to clear the available list, then do:

apt-get update

: to repopulate it.

Later, Seeker

Ah, good advice. I was thinking of /var/lib/dpkg/status for some reason,which of course can't be regenerated so easily.


Michael Spang

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