John Dalbec wrote:
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> My first attempt at fixing the "Can't move /sw/fink out of the way"  
> error was to "rm -r /sw/fink.old; mv /sw/fink /sw/fink.old; mv /sw/ 
> fink.tmp /sw/fink".  The last command should have been "mv /sw/ 
> fink.tmp/fink /sw/fink".  Now fink has no idea what packages are  
> installed.  Unfortunately I've since deleted /sw/fink/fink.  Is there  
> a way to get fink to pull that information from dpkg?

Have you run "fink selfupdate" successfully now? Shuffling around the 
/sw/fink* directories does not influence the various package databases 
that fink, apt-get and dpkg are entertaining. They are inside /sw/var.

-- 
Martin




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