On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 13:37 -0400, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > Hey guys, > > I did something dumb. I was playing around with some debs and hacking > some control files, when I accidentally removed /var/lib/dpkg/info !!! > Now, if I even try to do 'aptitude reinstall ~i', I am greeted with > "Writing extended state information... Error!". dpkg --list still > shows all the currently installed packages, but I am unable to > reinstall. Does anyone have a good idea on how to recover from > this??? Ideally, I think it would be easiest to reinstall all the > packages, since they are all from the repositories and none are > non-standard. > > Let me just state that I do not want to do any file recovery, even > though I know quite well how to do that. This should be able to be > reversed with some apt/dpkg kung-fu...
sudo apt-get --reinstall install `dpkg --get-selections | grep '[[:space:]]install' | cut -f1` This _might_ work. There is no silver bullet to fix your problem other than file backups. -- Ubuntu : http://www.ubuntu.com/ Linux1394: http://wiki.linux1394.org/ SwissDisk: http://www.swissdisk.com/ -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
