TheClap
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Posted: Aug. 15 2005,17:15 |
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I need to depackage something called driverloader because it supposedly might have the ability to load a windows driver for a Linksys G-w/ speed boost pcimcia wireless card. I knew that DSL was debian based........... and I then found that the depackaging commands were left out to keep it under 50 megs.
I found the page on the DSL site talking about apt-get and it said in a round about way how to restore dpkg. I took that file and unpackaged it inside the /var/lib directory.
"The way to do this is to download the compressed dpkg file from here and move it to '/var/lib/', then uncompress it:
tar zxvf dpkg.tar.gz
After that just 'apt-get update' and then Apt should be fully functional.
If you have net access, type 'sudo dpkg-restore' in your term window."
I uncompressed it there and "apt-get update" does nothing. If I "sudo dpkg-restore" it just goes to the next line and doesn't give me an error, but it also doesn't appear to do anything . dpkg still doesn't work.
I love DSL, but linux and I are slowly becoming friends......... slowly
I need help.
thankx
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