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: Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:26:11 +0000
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:21:56PM -0500, Michael Spang wrote:

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

  Thankfully this will be backed up automatically on most Debian systems
 and can be found in:

    /var/backups/dpkg.status*

Steve
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