Re: catastrophe - but how? Aptitude goes mad

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 30 June 2016 20:27:03 Brian wrote:
> On Thu 30 Jun 2016 at 19:59:52 +0200, Hans wrote:
> > Correct myself:
> > > I used the log file and edited it that way, that I took all the
> > > packagages from it and made an "aptitude reinstall" in front of the
> > > package list.
> >
> > Then I made a shellscript of it, just added the shebang line and made it
> > executable with root-permissions.
>
> This is a viable approach but let us not lose sight of the fact that the
> situation is recoverable. It isn't as though something critical to the
> system has been removed; just a few packages which are easily put back
> on the existing system.

:-))  Thank you, Brian.  A comforting thought on which to go to bed.

Thanks to all of you who replied.  I am too shattered now to give considered 
responses to all of you, that is assuming that you would like them to be 
vaguely coherent!!

This was the desktop.  I am about to post in one of the of the threads about 
the laptop and whether my despairing decision to reinstall that has been 
misplaced.

Lisi