Help Disk Crashed: How to rebuilt

[Daniel Mashao <daniel@vitasat.ee.uct.ac.za>]

Hi,

I need help with the following. 

My disk which had /usr crashed. I was glad that /var and /etc on separate
disks were still okay. But well since I am using Debian I have lots of
problems. Problem #1 is that apt-get refuses to get new applications
because it claims that those applications exist. But this is not true and
I don't know how to correct it.

I have a nigthmare of trying to install emacs19 or emacs20. It may because
of the above problem.

3rd. I have forgotten how I was able to install a Debianized pine? No
information is given with the Debian source on slink. I cannot remember as
well how to install netscape? Anyone remember?

thanks in advance,


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