Johann Spies wrote: > > After trying to use dosemu, my computer stalled and I had to press the > reset button en the end. After rebooting, I wanted to remove dosemu and > reinstall it and to my amazement dpkg reported that it was not installed. > When I ran dselect, it showed about a quarter of the installed packages. > > Is there a way to correct this?
seems, that your /var/lib/dpkg/status was corrupted. i recommend that you backup your current .../status and use one of the formerly saved ones, beginning with status-old, if that is corrupt also then proceed with status.yesterday.0 and so on backwards in time. -- hafi
