gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x57950100.hantslug.org.uk.10832': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Thu Sep 20 12:08:04 2007 BST
gpg: using DSA key 20ACB3BE515C238D
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:03:01PM +0100, Alex Phillips wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I have a small hardware problem with a debian system, the disk is
> dead, but I have a tar-file backup of the filesystems which I can
> restore. I want to extract from this the list of packages that were
> installed, something like dpkg -l, if the system was running.
>
> Does anyone know how I can point dpkg at the restored files ? or
> another way of doing this ?
grep ^Package: var/lib/dpkg/status
That file is, IIRC, the currently-installed-packages database.
Hugo.
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