I would advice you to use
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html
for manual recovery of packages. This provides links for downloading
the deb files, and it also presents all the meta information for
following up all dependencies.

Ralph.

On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 12:18:31 +0100 (BST)
Jim Jackson <jj@???> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the various comments on my problem ...
>
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, Jim Jackson wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My Beowulf amd64 system hard drive crashed, and after I'd restored
> > my backup I've had problems with apt-get etc.
> >
> > apt-cache: relocation error:
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-private.so.0.0: symbol
> > _ZN3URIcvNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEEB5cxx11Ev
> > version APTPKG_5.0 not defined in file libapt-pkg.so.5.0 with link
> > time reference
> >
> > I use rsync for backups, but without the -X -A options, so extended
> > attributes and ACLs are lost, don't know if that's the reason. If I
> > need to reinstall libapt-pkg5.0 package, does anybody know if it's
> > ok to just to use the debian package file?
> >
> > If not, can anyone tell where I can get the devuan libapt-pkg5.0
> > package file?
>
> I was a bit scared that the devuan packages might not be the debian
> buster ones. Anyway I bit the bullet and downloaded the debian
> apt_1.8.2.3_amd64.deb package and installed with dpkg -i and cross my
> fingers :-)
>
> Anyway apt and apt-get are back.
>
> Jim
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