dephorban has remove package

[matbos]

hi,

i have problem:

i have use deborphan,
and now i can't start virtualbox,
i can't go with firefox to page with flash
i can't start thunderbird
and i can't go with chrome to page with flash

i have uninstall flash player because security

i have install java 7 to try resolve this problem but now thunderbird don't work

matbos

i am french

[jerrrys]

You can try update; configure -a; install -f. Or just manually rebuilding packages.

This is when backup is a blessing.

[Lars Noodén]

deborphan by itself does nothing. Can you explain a little what exactly you did and how you used it? That might help with finding a solution.

[matbos]

hi,

my command:

sudo apt-get install deborphan
sudo apt-get remove $(deborphan) --purge
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge `deborphan`
sudo dpkg -P `dpkg -l | grep "^rc" | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
find /media -maxdepth 2 -name ".Trash*" -delete

[Lars Noodén]

That was pretty thorough. It removed all the packages you added manually and then some.

I haven't done this kind of recovery before so you will have to do reading on your own before trying. There should be a file /var/lib/dpkg/status-old that you can use to replace /var/lib/dpkg/status with. Or failing that use an older one from /var/backups/dpkg.status.* From there I think, but am not sure, that it might be possible to replace /var/lib/dpkg/status and then run 'sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade' and restore what you had.

[matbos]

in other forum, somebody ask me to use the end of

/var/log/dpkg.log

it is the ending of dpkg s'operation

who can i find the removal of package in this log?

[Lars Noodén]

The format of /var/log/dpkg.log is a little hard to work with, it's a log of what has been installed. Whereas the file /var/lib/dpkg/status (and /var/lib/dpkg/status-old) shows the state of the packages. I think the following should work to restore your machine based on what was in /var/lib/dpkg/status-old.

awk '$1=="Status:" && $2=="install" {print PACKAGE " install";PACKAGE=""};$1 == "Package:" {PACKAGE=$2}' /var/lib/dpkg/status-old | sudo dpkg --set-selections
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

Sorry for the long awk statement. The package status wan't always on the second line of the record.

[matbos]

sudo apt-get dselect-upgradeLecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances       
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVÉS*:
  fglrx-updates*
0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 1 à enlever et 0 non mis à jour.
Après cette opération, 0 o d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
Souhaitez-vous continuer [O/n]*? o
(Lecture de la base de données... 610175 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Suppression de fglrx-updates ...
Purge des fichiers de configuration de fglrx-updates ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/atieventsd exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force)
dpkg*: erreur de traitement de fglrx-updates (--purge)*:
 le sous-processus script post-removal installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
Aucun rapport «*apport*» écrit car MaxReports a déjà été atteint
                                                                Traitement des actions différées («*triggers*») pour «*initramfs-tools*»...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-31-generic
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution*:
 fglrx-updates
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

it's not this package

do you want to have /var/lib/dpkg/status post?

[Lars Noodén]

Hmm. I tested on a spare machine, but could only guess at your exact situation. If you need to edit the list of packages manually you could do it like this:

awk '$1=="Status:" && $2=="install" {print PACKAGE " install";PACKAGE=""};$1 == "Package:" {PACKAGE=$2}' /var/lib/dpkg/status-old | sort> /tmp/x
nano /tmp/x
sudo dpkg --set-selections < /tmp/x
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

[matbos]

sorry

but who what can i find to do in nano /tmp/x?

where is the package i have deleted in past?