Re: repairing damage to package manager

From	Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: repairing damage to package manager
Date	2017-03-24 20:40 +0100
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Hi,

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 03:22:06PM -0400, songbird wrote:
> Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> ...
> > I presume you are suggesting using wget to retrieve the missing
> > packages after identifying their URL's? 
> 
>   if you haven't cleared /var/cache/apt/archives you
> can check what is in there by:
> 
> $ ls /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb | grep apt and
> see what versions are showing up.
> 
> then if they are still there you can try
> dpkg -i on the latest versions
> 
> 
>   songbird

That's good to know for future problems, but I managed to find the
correct download link, retrieved it, and it installed okay with the 
dpkg -i command. I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade with no
errors and nothing to do, so perhaps I am in the clear.

Thanks for the help. 

Chuck

-- 
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

Thread

repairing damage to package manager Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 16:40 +0100
  Re: repairing damage to package manager Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-03-24 16:50 +0100
    Re: repairing damage to package manager Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 17:00 +0100
      Re: repairing damage to package manager Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 17:00 +0100
      Re: repairing damage to package manager songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-24 20:30 +0100
        Re: repairing damage to package manager Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 20:40 +0100
  Re: repairing damage to package manager Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 16:50 +0100
  Re: repairing damage to package manager Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-03-24 20:50 +0100
    Re: repairing damage to package manager Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 21:00 +0100
      Re: repairing damage to package manager Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-03-24 22:20 +0100
      Re: repairing damage to package manager Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 12:20 +0100
      Re: repairing damage to package manager songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-25 19:20 +0100
        Re: repairing damage to package manager Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-03-25 20:10 +0100

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