Jean-Francois Gratton wrote: > Electric power went down while I was apt-getting dist-upgrade. Of course > *the* filesystem that got to be trashed was /var ... > > Right now I got a parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/available.. > > Don't throw stones at me, I compounded the problem by deleting the file > (yeah I know.. not bright. I figured that I'd get recreated at the next > apt-get update).. > > So now I'm stuck with a system that won't upgrade itself.. > > Any way to get out of this ? I'm running the unstable branch.
Try: dpkg --update-avail But not sure that will fix your problem. Bob
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