fresh debian install (was: /var/lib gone)

well. what's the recommended way of installing the newest set of packages available to debian? has somebody somewhere an iso image of the unstable tree or do i have to install potato's diskset and then download each and every package i want from woody separately? i can't do anything automati

/var/lib gone

hi! i just found out, that i've accidently erased all the contents of /var/lib. the machine works almost fine, but what exactly am i missing at the moment, besides that i cannot use dpkg ? is the only option to fix this to re-install the distribution? or can somebody tell me the normal subtre

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iliar problem with alien as i tried to convert an rpm. in this case alien just stopped. what might be wrong? are there any packages i'm missing or which need to be updated? -- > ^c/^x + ^v & © < || oliver d tali, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||