On 19-Jun-01, 04:06 (CDT), Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Brad Pfautsch wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am running Debian 2.2r2 on a i386 machine. When I came into work > > yesterday, I was going to update some packages. I kept getting errors > > when trying to use dpkg stated "/var/lib/dpkg/status file or directory > > not found". I did a cd /var/lib and then dir. The entire dpkg > > directory is gone. Is there any way to rebuild this without wiping out > > my entire installation and starting over? Thanks in advance for any > > help. > > Nope.
That's basically true, in that there's no way to recover the /var/lib/dpkg/info directory (which has all maintainer scripts, file lists, etc.), but you should look in the /var/backups directory for a copy of your dpkg status file, which will at least tell you what you had installed, and with a little scripting can probably be used to automate at least some of the reinstall. Steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)
