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recovery from "rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/info" ?



On 8/22/07, Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Does this help?
> http://mm.bbspals.org/linux/lost-var-lib-dpkg-on-debian/

I will try one of them.  It seems that I am in new territory.  People
lose /var/lib/dpkg or /var/lib/dpkg/status.  However, I only lost the
/var/lib/dpkg/info directory, which stores things like file lists for
packages, md5sums, and pre/post install scripts.  I wonder why this
directory would matter to apt when trying to pull down and install
packages.  You would think that the info directory would not be
necessary.  I did recreate it just to be safe, to no avail...
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Kristian Erik Hermansen

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