Re: did something stupid - removed gzip

[Matthew Dalton <matthewd@research.canon.com.au>]

CaT wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:18:01AM -0600, Jason N. Price wrote:
> > Okay, I just did something that, in hindsight, was very stupid.  :)  I have
> > been getting a lot of errors from gzip, so I decided to apt-get remove it
> > and then re-install it.  I removed it, but I now seem unable to reinstall
> > it because gzip is not there.  Ooops.  Is there any way I can fix this?
> 
> grab the tarball from ftp.gnu.org and compile it. then put the executable
> in /usr/bin and do an apt-get install to get the debian version.

"Okay, I've got the tarball - gzip.tar.gz, now what do I do?"

Hehe...