Re: Damaged dpkg

2000-05-04 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I suppose that I need to resemble the /var/lib/dpkg tree and just want to > know if there is any way doing this. best is, you grab the 16 meg archive from the boot floppies and unpack it (as a whole without overwriting existing files or only the relevant files). this way you'll get at minimal deb

Damaged dpkg

2000-05-04 Thread Thomas Luft
Hi, to get some space on my hard disk I deleted the directories and files under the /var/lib/dpkg tree. Later I found out that this was a BIG mistake because dpkg isn't working any more. I managed to access the basic dselect-functions like defining the access method and selecting the packages I wa