Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!

From: Arnt Karlsen (arnt_at_c2i.net)
Date: 12/02/03

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    On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:01:06 -0500,
    Mark Roach <mrroach@okmaybe.com> wrote in message
    <1070312466.5499.48.camel@flmrroach.okmaybe.com>:

    > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:48, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
    > > root@not a tty[/]# apt-get install --reinstall xserver-common
    > > Reading Package Lists... Done
    > > Building Dependency Tree... Done
    > > Sorry, re-installation of xserver-common is not possible, it \
    > > cannot be downloaded.
    > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and \
    > > 0 not upgraded.
    >
    > hmm, not sure why that would be, I suppose it could be related to the
    > recent security problems. The easiest thing to do is probably to grab
    > the .deb from http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/ and
    > install it with "dpkg -i"

    ..drat, I need sleep now, I got up on Sunday noon GMT, I'll
    just fry another cd and start over "tomorrow". ;-)

    ..if anyone comes up with an "apt-get --steamroll-in-the-damn-thing"
    line in the next 15 hours or so, I'll be happy to try it. ;-) 

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