On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:19 pm, John O'Hagan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:32:46PM +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > >Run this: > > > >apt-get --reinstall install \ > >$(cd /var/lib/dpkg/info; grep -l '^/bin/' *.list|sed 's/.list$//') > > Thanks for this ingenious solution; there are still a couple of things to > iron out though: for some reason the command substitution above produces a > shorter list of files than what should be in /bin (I'm trying to figure out > why)
It has been pointed out that this is because some packages contribute more than one file to /bin > and when I try to run it I get this error from apt-get: > > E: Couldn't configure pre-depend coreutils for debianutils, probably a > dependency cycle. In the end it was a matter of excluding debianutils, gzip and initscripts from the above process because of config/dependency issues (not sure why those particular packages), and then reinstalling them afterwards. (I also had a dodgy .deb of the mount package in my apt archive and had to re-download it before the above would work) Everything seems to be ok now (that is, everything that dpkg believes to be installed in /bin is actually installed). Thanks for the replies. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
