On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:11:40AM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: > My dpkg is apparently broken. I suspect that a file or three is either > missing, can't be found for some reason, or is lying in some foul > gutter, corrupted by too close an association with a certain lower class > OS. Either I must recreate/locate the missing file(s), or re-install > dpkg. > > Problems: > > 1. I don't know what files should where. dpkg -I can't help, it's > borked :-/. Is there a config file somewhere?
Depends what's going wrong. Could you post the error messages? > 2. How do you install dpkg if dpkg is broken? Since I have yet to > compile any packages, doing so for a critical app is not high on my list > of druthers. Find a .tar.gz pkg? Yep. Get project/dpkg/dpkg-$(VERSION)_$(ARCH).nondebbin.tar.gz from your Debian mirror (so dpkg-1.6.15_i386.nondebbin.tar.gz etc. for potato and dpkg-1.9.20_i386.nondebbin.tar.gz etc. for woody/sid) and unpack it in the root directory. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
