Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously Eythan Weg wrote: > > What can be done to make dpkg working again? Or > > at least usable to some degree. > > touch /var/lib/dpkg/status > touch /var/lib/dpkg/available > mkdir /var/lib/dpkg/info > dpkg --force-depends -i dpkg_1.6.15.deb > > and reinstall everything using --force-depends. It might be easier > to reinstall the machine from scratch..
The first method was my natural preference mainly because I did not want to loose my ftp connection to Debian's archive in case something goes wrong. I addressed this group in the hope that there might be some tricky method to recreate the database, which is more likely to be known here. Alas, there is not... Thank you. eythan
