On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 05:46:46 -0500, Colin Watson wrote: >On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:11:40AM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: >> My dpkg is apparently broken. snip >> 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?
There are (now were) no error messages. See my post of 4/19 "apt-get upgrade won't" for details. > >> 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. Did and done. Worked like a charm. Many thanks, Colin. -- gt It is interesting to note that as one evil empire (generic) fell, another Evil Empire (tm) began its nefarious rise. -- me Coincidence? I think not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
