[plug] Debian packaging, filesystem corruption, verify.

[Ashley Jennings]

Hi,

two options from the apt-get man page which may help are --fix-broken
and  --reinstall .

Haven't used these for recovery but am interested if they work for you.


Ash

PS    can't comment if RPM is superior... haven't used it for 4 years ;-)




On 16/10/06, Michael Holland <myk at myk.id.au> wrote:
>
> re dpkg, apt again.
>
> I got some nasty root filesystem corruption, and after fsck see lots in
> /lost+found .   While my data is backed up, the system software is not
> (yet :-) .  I was hoping that the package management system might be able
> to check the files and re-install damaged packages, assuming the
> package database is intact, but cannot find a way.
>    Can that be done in debian/ubuntu?
> Is there an equivalent to "rpm --verify", or is RPM the superior system?
> :-)
>
> Mike.
>
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