I would advice you to use https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html for manual recovery of packages. This provides links for downloading the deb files, and it also presents all the meta information for following up all dependencies.
Ralph. On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 12:18:31 +0100 (BST) Jim Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for the various comments on my problem ... > > On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, Jim Jackson wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > My Beowulf amd64 system hard drive crashed, and after I'd restored > > my backup I've had problems with apt-get etc. > > > > apt-cache: relocation error: > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-private.so.0.0: symbol > > _ZN3URIcvNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEEB5cxx11Ev > > version APTPKG_5.0 not defined in file libapt-pkg.so.5.0 with link > > time reference > > > > I use rsync for backups, but without the -X -A options, so extended > > attributes and ACLs are lost, don't know if that's the reason. If I > > need to reinstall libapt-pkg5.0 package, does anybody know if it's > > ok to just to use the debian package file? > > > > If not, can anyone tell where I can get the devuan libapt-pkg5.0 > > package file? > > I was a bit scared that the devuan packages might not be the debian > buster ones. Anyway I bit the bullet and downloaded the debian > apt_1.8.2.3_amd64.deb package and installed with dpkg -i and cross my > fingers :-) > > Anyway apt and apt-get are back. > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
