Probably the easiest thing would be to reinstall everything, but if you really want to the ar command (which is built into sash, BTW, and is on the rescue disk if I remember correctly) will unpack deb files. Just get your hands on dpkg...deb, unpack it, and manually move files into their proper locations. You may also need to do the same for some lib...deb files in order to get dpkg working. Once you get dpkg working you can install apt, and have it reinstall everything (you just need to generate a list of all packages you had installed before... for that the /var/lib/dpkg dir must be intact. You can then use `dpkg -l > file` and edit until you have a valid list, or I have a perl script that simply extracts the full package names if you like. Of course, that would require a functioning perl).
Reinstall would most likely be easier. But whatever you do, good luck. On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:48:11PM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: > Hi, > I posted a similar msg few days ago, and having no response, I > reformule :) > > My woody system got severrr FS damage, and lots of binaries are broken > (including apt, dpkg...) > how can I install dpkg and apt ? > also, how can I reinstall all installed packages? > > Thanks in advance > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- John Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] "To be or not to be. That's not really a question." - Jean Luc Godard
