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? Currently using Linux 2.2.20, Debian Woody As I no longer subscribe to the list, please cc me with reponses.This is better: sudo apt-get --reinstall install `dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/* | sed 's/^\([^,]*\):[^,]*/\1/' |sort |uniq` Essentially, if you only deleted the files in /usr/X11R6/bin/ (and did not harm the package archive) this command, will search for and print the name of every package with a file installed to /usr/X11R6/bin/ (dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/bin/*). Then take that list and remove everything after the end of each package name sed ('s/^\([^,]*\):[^,]*/\1/'), sort the package names (sort), remove duplicate entries (uniq), and finally reinstall all the packages, (sudo apt-get --reinstall install `the output of the above commands`). HTH, -RobertoI tried your recommended command line (running as root instead of sudo) and the result was a prompt -- ">" -- . Furthermore, my unintentional removal of the /usr/X11R6/bin/ directory somehow also caused apt-get to reject /etc/apt/sources.list which had been working fine for a number of months. Any thoughts? Thanks, sam
Sorry for not replying earlier, but my internet connection has been down
since Tuesday night. Make sure that you take note of the difference
between the single quotes (' - on the same key as ") and the bakc-tick
(` - on the same key as the ~).
As far as your sources.list, what is the exact error message?
-Roberto
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