Re: apt-get and dpkg woes

2001-02-16 Thread Aaron Brashears
Well, skip any response to this you have. I seem to have killed most of the system. I can still use the console, but X has died, as have several other programs. ssh still works though ;). On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:43:00PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I recently decided to upgrade my system a

apt-get and dpkg woes

2001-02-16 Thread Aaron Brashears
I recently decided to upgrade my system at home since it's been a while. I ran into a lot of problems, and the upgrade was VERY rough. However, after all of my playing around with the system, it seems to be left in a partially broken state. When I try to do an apt-get uprage, here's what happens:

Dpkg Woes

1999-12-11 Thread Todd Suess
Ok, if you read my previous email, you know I made a serious mistake and accidently deleted /var/lib/dpkg/status while I was cleaning out the old status files to save some space. Obviously, dpkg now has no idea of what packages are installed on my system, and is broken. Is there any way to g