Re: Rebuilding system after aptitude
On Sunday 12 June 2016 17:21:10 Sven Hartge wrote:
> Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 June 2016 16:23:47 Felix Miata wrote:
> >> # dpkg -l | sort | egrep
> >> 'alsa|arts|imedia-l|libasoun|mix|pavuc|phonon|pulse|space-libs' ii
> >
> > egrep apparently not in my $PATH, can't find it even after a
> > re-install.
>
> egrep is in /bin/egrep and in the package grep. grep itself is
> "Priority: required" so you can't not have this package. If you don't
> have /bin/egrep, then your system is way more broken than you may
> hope. Or "/bin" is not in your $PATH, which would also be strange.
>
> Grüße,
> Sven.
grep is indeed there, but egrep, which IIRC is supposed to be a softlink
to grep, is not. And I just re-installed the grep pkg too. It has been
fixed, but the cache is dirty I guess. S/b ok now. I can ask both for
a version ok now.
Cheers Sven, Gene Heskett
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