On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:52:05PM -0500, Matt Wehland wrote: > The problem comes in that while upgrading something puked but the older > version of dpkg was removed (yes I had to type in 'removing this may screw > up your system' or something like that).
Don't do that then :-) > The newer version of dpkg wasn't installed. Now I can't install anything, > including dpkg (either version) since dselect (or apt-get) return and error > '/usr/bin/dpkg' returned and error. Not suprising since dpkg isn't there. > I am just in the process of rebuilding this system so starting over doesn't > really bother me (I actually want to try some new things I've learned to > par down the packages installed). > But I would like to learn how to get around this problem in case I manage > to do something this stupid in the future on a more important system. You can retrieve enough of dpkg to get your system back by downloading project/dpkg/dpkg-$(version)_$(arch).nondebbin.tar.gz from any Debian mirror, untarring that in /, then using that to reinstall the dpkg package. It's probably a good idea to download the version of the non-Debianized dpkg binary that roughly matches your distribution (so currently 1.6.15 for stable and 1.9.17 for testing/unstable). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
