I have a feeling I will be reinstalling my system, but I was going thru and cleaning up old logs, etc and accidently deleted /var/lib/dpkg/status when I meant to delete the old status files. Is there any way to regenerate the status file or is dpkg now totally and horribly broken? Regards, Todd -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null