njd4k
February 25th, 2009, 05:04 PM
I switched this week from a dual boot system to 100% Ubuntu (yay!), but in the process of reshuffling partitions, wound up reinstalling Intrepid from scratch. Fortunately, I had backed up my system... but unfortunately, SBackup seems to freeze up if I reinstall a directory with any large files in it. After hours of installing one set of preferences after another, I gave up.
So now I have a system that's partly restored, and partly fresh. What I would like to do is keep the settings I've been able to repair, while reinstalling anything that isn't quite right. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get any package management to work because my Google Desktop installation is broken. When I try to install from the .deb file, the package manager crashes; Synaptic automatically closes when I try to open it; apt-get and dpkg won't reinstall or remove the program, because it can't see the .deb file and not all the files that should be there, are. This happens even when I try using force options for dpkg and apt-get.
I have Google's .deb file, and most of the error messages boil down to some variation on "I can't reinstall this without an archive." Is there some way to tell apt-get where it is? Is there some directory where it will be automatically detected? Or am I going to have to reinstall from the CD and just do it all over again?
So now I have a system that's partly restored, and partly fresh. What I would like to do is keep the settings I've been able to repair, while reinstalling anything that isn't quite right. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get any package management to work because my Google Desktop installation is broken. When I try to install from the .deb file, the package manager crashes; Synaptic automatically closes when I try to open it; apt-get and dpkg won't reinstall or remove the program, because it can't see the .deb file and not all the files that should be there, are. This happens even when I try using force options for dpkg and apt-get.
I have Google's .deb file, and most of the error messages boil down to some variation on "I can't reinstall this without an archive." Is there some way to tell apt-get where it is? Is there some directory where it will be automatically detected? Or am I going to have to reinstall from the CD and just do it all over again?