Re: re-installing dpkg when dpkg is borked

2002-04-21 Thread Gary Turner
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 05:46:46 -0500, Colin Watson wrote: >On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:11:40AM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: >> My dpkg is apparently broken. snip >> Problems: >> >> 1. I don't know what files should where. dpkg -I can't help, it's >> borked :-/. Is there a config file somewhere?

Re: re-installing dpkg when dpkg is borked

2002-04-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:11:40AM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: > My dpkg is apparently broken. I suspect that a file or three is either > missing, can't be found for some reason, or is lying in some foul > gutter, corrupted by too close an association with a certain lower class > OS. Either I must

Re: re-installing dpkg when dpkg is borked

2002-04-21 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Gary Turner wrote: > 2. How do you install dpkg if dpkg is broken? Since I have yet to > compile any packages, doing so for a critical app is not high on my list > of druthers. Find a .tar.gz pkg? apt-get source dpkg (you must have deb-src lines in your /etc/apt/sour

re-installing dpkg when dpkg is borked

2002-04-21 Thread Gary Turner
My dpkg is apparently broken. I suspect that a file or three is either missing, can't be found for some reason, or is lying in some foul gutter, corrupted by too close an association with a certain lower class OS. Either I must recreate/locate the missing file(s), or re-install dpkg. Problems: