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I'm using 12.04. I'm unable to perform any installation or remove because I lost my dpkg at /usr/bin/dpkg.

I tried with following procedure:

mkdir /tmp/dpkg
cd /tmp/dpkg
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.15.5.6ubuntu4_i386.deb
ar x dpkg*.deb data.tar.gz
tar xfvz data.tar.gz ./usr/bin/dpkg
sudo cp ./usr/bin/dpkg /usr/bin/
sudo apt-get update

But I got an error after running that wget command:

tar xfvz data.tar.gz ./usr/bin/dpkg

tar (child): data.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

How can this be fixed?

Eliah Kagan
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newbie13
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The next folders will be overwritten:

etc sbin usr var

so try:

tar -zxvf data.tar.gz -C /

Ruslan Gerasimov
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