[Linux-disciples] apt-get problems

[Dylan Thurston]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:02:41PM -0400, Nirmal Trivedi wrote:
> > Does /usr/sbin/install-info exist?  Is it executable?
> > 
> 
> The file has these attributes, though I'm not sure if this tells me if
> it's executable or not.
> 
> ?r-S--S--T  2060 2060     26937    134681552 Apr 12  1974 install-info

Very, very bad...  This is what it should be:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        14021 Mar 11 06:30 /usr/sbin/install-info

I suspect you have disk corruption.  Have you rebooted recently?  You
should do an fsck.

> > Have you tried reinstalling dpkg?
> 
> I usually reinstall by doing apt-get remove something and then apt-get
> install something, but I got a wicked admonition to not remove dpkg
> unless "I know exactly what I'm doing."

You should not remove dpkg.  Instead, run

apt-get install --reinstall dpkg

(if dpkg will run at all, that is)

Peace,
	Dylan
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