HELP! I destroyed /var/cache/apt **FIXED**

[Jay Ridgley]

 > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:40:43 -0000 Steve 
<yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
 > Subject: Re: HELP! I destroyed /var/cache/apt
 > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" 
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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 > > On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:35:39 -0000, Jay Ridgley wrote:
 > > Folks,
 > >
 > > Well to put it simply "I shot myself in the foot"!
 > >
 > > How do I recover a completely destroyed /var/cache/apt directory? I
 > > messed up with an sudo rm -rf to get rid of some files in /var...
 > >
 > > How do I rebuild the information on installed packages?? Can I copy one
 > > from another system?
 > >
 > > With egg on my face,
 > > Jay
 > >
 > > PS Thanks for the help about the NFS entry in my /etc/fstab
 > >
 > Restore from your backup  :p
 >
 > ...or have a read of man apt-cache
 >
 > -- Steve

Folks,

Well I got it back together, but is was not pretty...

I wound up doing a complete install and applied all the updates...

Then reconfigured everything(and that was a bunch). The system is my 
firewall and is headless to boot...

A gentle word here-- IF YOU ARE DOING SPARSE BACKUPS INCLUDE /var AS 
PART OF IT! I had not been...

Cheers,
Jay
-- 


Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
Registered Linux User ID - 9115
Registered Ubuntu User ID - 23320