dpkg/apt recovery has been added to the friendly-recovery package in intrepid. When booting into recovery mode it will have a "dpkg -Repair packages" menu item that will do the required steps.

There are plant to also extend update-manager so that it is available there.

The friendly recovery feaure is at https://edge.launchpad.net/~mvo/+archive

See also

• RecoveryMode

CategoryRecovery