Hello,
I mistyped a command. I intended to type "dpkg -S gdb" to find what package
contains the debugger in question and instead I typed "aptitude -S gdb"
>From then on, aptitude starts but claims I only have 44 packages installed,
and a few more in the other categories. Is this a matter of just the display
or is it that now aptitude only knows about a very small subset of packages?
How do I return aptitude to the original behavior?
Of course I immediately checked man aptitude to see what I had done:
-S <fname>
Loads the extended state information from <fname> instead of the
standard state file.
Since I presume file "gdb" (in the context of aptitude) doesn't exist I'm
not quite sure what happened here. Help!
>From the manual page I gather that the default package state file is
/var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates, so I ran
aptitude -S /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates
but this made no difference in returning aptitude to the previous behavior.
I had searched (inside aptitude) for gdb, but all I got were a few matches
of some libs that contain "gdb" in their names. Thus the attempt to search
with the mistaken command. Now I'm not sure if I can't find the gdb
program because aptitude is damaged somehow or because it is not in the
lenny distribution. I have used "dpkg -S /usr/bin/gdb" and
"dpkg -S /bin/gdb" so it appears that whatever package contains gdb is
not installed, searches for "gdb" and "-dev" inside aptitude didn't turn
out anything obvious.
Why did I go looking for gdb? Kaffeine crashed, and when told to give
me a backtrace, complained that gdb wasn't found.
# apt-cache search gdb
courier-authlib-userdb - userdb support for the Courier authentication library
libgdbm3 - GNU dbm database routines (runtime version)
python-dbg - Debug Build of the Python Interpreter (version 2.5)
ruby1.8 - Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby 1.8
vim-dbg - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor (debugging symbols)
This too failed to find gdb. Where is it? Do I have a totally damaged
package database now?
This is a freshly installed Lenny (not an upgrade). What has happened?
Any hints will be welcome. Thanks.
A.
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