Kent West wrote:
Sam Rosenfeld wrote:I erased all my X-related bin files (that is, including apps running on X) and did not have them backed up. I could reinstall them one at a time butthat seems very laborious -- is there some better way? Currently using Linux 2.2.20, Debian Woody As I no longer subscribe to the list, please cc me with reponses. Thanks. samYou could try tasksel, which would get you quite a bit of it back.I'd probably use dselect or aptitude, and just go marking things for install that look interesting. Then start the download/install and go strum on the guitar for half an hour (or four days, if you're on dial-up).Neither of these is reinstallation one at a time, but you will have to mark one at a time to get a lot of what you want.
This is better:sudo apt-get --reinstall install `dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/* | sed 's/^\([^,]*\):[^,]*/\1/' |sort |uniq`
Essentially, if you only deleted the files in /usr/X11R6/bin/ (and did
not harm the package archive) this command, will search for and print
the name of every package with a file installed to /usr/X11R6/bin/
(dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/*). Then take that list and remove everything
after the end of each package name sed ('s/^\([^,]*\):[^,]*/\1/'), sort
the package names (sort), remove duplicate entries (uniq), and finally
reinstall all the packages, (sudo apt-get --reinstall install `the
output of the above commands`).
Admittedly, this will take a while to donwload and reinstall all the
packages, but it will ensure that you get all of the packages even if
they are not part of the X Windows System task.
HTH,
-Roberto
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