Hi Jake, On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 09:36:14PM -0600, Jake McBride wrote: > Hi i have an iPhone 4 running iOS 6.1.3 and I accidently overwrote the > "install" unix exicutable file found in usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/ is there > any way you could email me a zip of the "dpkg" folder or even just the > "apt" folder You reached the development list of apt. We work on creating and maintaining it for the Linux distribution Debian and its derivatives like Ubuntu. This list is not for user support questions of any kind. These are better handled by the distribution/port-creator you got apt from. While I personally have heard that there is a port to Darwin/iPhone floating around in the internet, I have never actually used nor seen it and I doubt its much different for the other readers of this mailinglist. So, this list is probably not your ideal contact point even if we ignore the development aspect, that said let me try to answer it anyway after 5 minutes of searchengine voodoo - and let me CC the suspected author of the port as I have now a question, too: > apt folder... > > desc.apt > names > setup > update > > > just missing "install" I believe You are right, just missing 'install'. I doubt that they are actually used through as these scripts are for use with dselect – an old package management frontend in Debian (shipped in the realm of dpkg). I would bet they are dormant files in the port and not a cause for a problem if missing… I found deb packages which claim to be 0.6.X and 0.7.X apt versions (which are a few years old), but which version you really have might be important to know even if these files hardly change…, but, isn't your frontend providing you with a reinstall option anyway? On the other hand, my scavenger hunt for the source code of the iPhone port turned up nothing which makes me a bit sad – which is also the question I have for Jay as it would be nice if he could point me in the right direction. I doubt there is much point in merging the entire port if nobody of the current team can work on it, but ports tend to carry also patches for things which aren't strictly related to the port itself and would actually be nice to have in mainline if only we would know about them… Best regards David Kalnischkies
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