available file is completly damaged

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On do, 2005-06-16 at 23:16 +0200, Matthias Fechner wrote:

> i had a crash today on my notebook and the file
> /var/lib/dpkg/available and the backup file .old is completly damaged.
> 
> Is there any possiblity to generate is file?

I think that:

dpkg -R --record-avail /var/lib/apt/lists/

can do this trick for you. See man dpkg for details.
-- 
Dennis K.
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