Re: erased all XWindows

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

Kent West wrote:
> 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.

One of the myriad of reasons I will never use M$ Widows again
for anything more serious than games.  It is a hoy OS after all :-)

BTW, that little bit-o-magic took less than 5 minutes to cook up.

Linux is awesome.

-Roberto

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