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Re: broken dpkg status



On 14/07/11 11:44, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived to
delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never thought to
back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake!

For the archives, there is a useful script at
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/package-database-rebuild.html
which scans the /usr/share/doc directory for installed packages, and rebuilds the database from that.

Don't know yet how fully it's fixed, but it looks like I've got most of the database back; apt and synaptic at least are working ... phew!

Cheers, Tony


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