well the problem is the following, After a crash of our webserver, the whole /var was gone. We got the system working again, but, dpkg produces errors ever since.
to show what the output the machine gives us looks like here comes a sample installation for bombardier:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install bombardier
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
bombardier: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1) but it is not going to be installed
libdb1-compat: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13) but it is not going to be installed
libssl0.9.7: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
wget: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
the whole /var/lib/dpkg/info is gone,
here s the output of dpkg --get selections
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg --get-selections libdb1-compat install libssl0.9.7 install mysql-common install wget install [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
my next step was to reread man apt-get, thought i couldn't find a way how to regenerate those info files.
Google didn't help me with my questions neither.
Would be great if there was another method to resolve this problem than a reinstall.
Greets Bob Hentges
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