How to get ARCH...............
Hello Everyone,
This morning after an update and safe-upgrade on my Squeeze system -
which is mentioned just in case, though I don't think it had anything
to do with my problem. My /var partition went belly up. On closing I was
presented with heaps of errors so fsck'd the system manually and when
completed, booted it up. I'm not certain that the hard drive didn't
develop some bad sectors. So attempted to install *smartmontools* to
check the drive
Had to create some directories and files in /var manually but still have
problems.
Trying to install packages get errors like this:-
E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the libgcc1 package. This might
mean you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch)
Writing extended state information... Done E: I wasn't able to locate a
file for the libgcc1 package. This might mean you need to manually fix
this package. (due to missing arch)
So I can't unpack and install smartmontools anyway.
Have googled and read and attempted all kinds of things to reconfigure,
reinstall, purge - aptitude - apt - dkpg so that it may pick up the
"missing arch" but none of these will do any of that.
I think this is a reinstall for me, but just thought someone might be
able to point me to some documentation so this isn't required. The
system is fully backed up, so I can try some things, and if it breaks
then will just reinstall.
But if someone has some ideas that might just work...........
TIA
Charlie
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