Fixing Broken System

[Brian Victor <bhv1@psu.edu>]

Due to an intermittent hard drive error which has since been fixed, my
root partition has taken significant but not sweeping damage.  Most
binaries still work, but a few don't, such as df, cat, and mount.  I
don't know precisely how much was damaged, nor do I know an easy method
of determining this.

That said, is there any way of forcing apt to reinstall all installed
packages or something?  From what I can tell, upgrade and dist-upgrade
only reinstall changed packages.  Or perhaps I can install the potato
base and use my existing apt database to tell it what packages to
install?  What is the recommended way of recovering such a broken
system?

Thanks,

-- 
Brian

                                            "The only time you should look
Email: bhv1@psu.edu                          down on a man is when you're
Web:   http://www.personal.psu.edu/bhv1/     helping him get up."
                                                                -- Unknown


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