Re: DPKG: status file broken

2002-09-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 23, 2002, BeerBong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > > I use Debian Woody. > I updated packages list today via 'Upade' dselect and select to > install 'perlmagick'. > When I tried to Install selected packages I got > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Unable to parse package

Re: dpkg "status" file lost

2002-06-28 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Jerome Warnier wrote: After a powerloss, I lost also all dpkg info, including the "status" file. Could someone help me get it back to work? I'm far, far away from the machine, which rebooted nicely (some libraries were also lost, though), but I'd like to reinstall all those libraries which may

Re: dpkg "status" file lost

2002-06-27 Thread bijan soleymani
bijan soleymani wrote: Jerome Warnier wrote: After a powerloss, I lost also all dpkg info, including the "status" file. Could someone help me get it back to work? I'm far, far away from the machine, which rebooted nicely (some libraries were also lost, though), but I'd like to reinstall all

Re: dpkg "status" file lost

2002-06-27 Thread bijan soleymani
Jerome Warnier wrote: After a powerloss, I lost also all dpkg info, including the "status" file. Could someone help me get it back to work? I'm far, far away from the machine, which rebooted nicely (some libraries were also lost, though), but I'd like to reinstall all those libraries which ma

Re: dpkg status file

2001-07-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:03:07PM -0400, Dale Miller wrote: > I accidentally deleted my status file in /var/lib/dpkg. Is there any way > to rebuld this? That would be quite hard. Instead, just pickup the most recent copy from /var/backups. Cheers, Joost

Re: dpkg status-file

1997-11-08 Thread Carey Evans
Max Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > the file "/usr/var/dpkg/status" is absent (not found) on my system. That should be in /var/lib/dpkg/status. > Where can I get it ? If you don't actually have any packages installed, I suppose you could `touch' it and see what happens. -- Care