On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:47:39AM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > > grep -l '^[\./]*bin/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | # find pkgs with file in > /bin > sed -e sX/var/lib/dpkg/info/XX -e 'sX\.list$XX' | # strip down to pkg name > xargs apt-get --reinstall install # reinstall them. > Thank you SO MUCH!! For some reason the grep | sed | xargs apt-get command didn't work together. But independently using grep and sed I got the list of packages that I needed.
Once again, thank you so much. I thought I was totally screwed. -- wcrowshaw
