On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, 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?
> >>>>
> >>>>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,
> >>
> >>-Roberto
> >>
> >
> > I 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
Thanks, Roberto. It was that last back tick that I missed. Also, I
straightened out the sources.list problem -- I put the same data in the
/var/lib/apt/sources.list and in /etc/apt/sources.list. And, voila, it
all worked like a charm.
sam
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