[Linux-disciples] apt-get problems

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 06:01:37PM -0400, Nirmal Trivedi wrote:
> 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.

That sucks. Does anyone know of a way to bootstrap onesself
into dpkg, short of just sending along a tarball of all the
dpkg files with all the metadata inside? There must be some
single file that we can use to get dpkg installed ...

If it helps at all, see

http://laniels.org/dpkg.tar.gz

which contains

/usr/bin/dpkg*
/usr/sbin/dpkg*
/usr/sbin/cleanup-info

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