On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Marc Singer wrote: > I've wondered about this for a while. Is there a reason that apt-get > chokes when the status file doesn't exist? If, for some reason, I > delete the status file then I must create an empty file before apt-get > will run properly. Is there a reason it doesn't just make a new file > when none exists? Because apt doesn't own that file, dpkg does. And dpkg chokes when that file doesn't exist. And no, that is not going to change.