Apt-Get

Forum: Apt-get
Topic: Apt-Get
started by: Asmodeus

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Posted by Asmodeus on Nov. 15 2003,18:01

Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2 No such file or directory)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.


Help! I think i broke apt-get!!!!

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Posted by KevB on Nov. 15 2003,18:47

Did you have it working before?

If not, search the forum for info on how to fix it.

If so, did you alter sources.list?

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Posted by Asmodeus on Nov. 17 2003,06:28

I've tried everything... Still have th above error
I tried deleting the package list manually,
ran update again, it downloads it, and gives me
the god damn error again!  

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Posted by John on Nov. 17 2003,15:25

Asmodeus, did you run dpkg-restore as root?  

If you have and the problem is from something else, download the dpkg.tar.gz file from this website, gunzip & untar the directory and copy over  dpkg/status to /var/lib/dpkg/status.

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Posted by Asmodeus on Nov. 17 2003,18:47

It worked! Thank you John!

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