So screwed in Debian

[Gaccm]

Well, i was an idiot and deleted my /var/lib/dpkg/status file. This file holds the info for all packages installed on my comp..... So, does anyone have any segestions on how i can save myself, or am i super screwed?

[error27]

is there a status-old file?

you could try copying that to the right file.

just out of curiosity, why did you delete the file?

you could try asking that on #debian irc.debian.org perhaps...

or maybe there is a data recovery that you can use but I don't think so on ext2.

there may be other possible solutions. wait for a couple responses and think through things before you change anything.

[Gaccm]

i have a status-old file from 2 days ago, so thats good. But, i tried replacing it, the problem is that before all this, my apt-get stopped working, whenever i updated, it would give me an error when parsing /var/lib/dpkg/status. I tried moving the status file and making a empty replacement and it worked, except that the system then thought i had no .debs installed.