[Linux-disciples] apt-get problems

[Nirmal Trivedi]

> 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.

I ran fsck which did fix all kinds of broken inodes (?), but it looks
like that process also removed /usr/sbin/install-info. The file no
longer exists, which also means I cannot run dpkg or apt-get install.

> 
> > > 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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