Re: erased all XWindows

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Roberto Sanchez 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 but
> > > that seems very laborious -- is there some better way?
>
> sudo apt-get --reinstall install `dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/* | sed 
> 's/^\([^,]*\):[^,]*/\1/' |sort |uniq`
>
> Essentially, <snip> [this does magic].


Sweet.

Linux is so awesome.

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Kent