Due to an intermittent hard drive error which has since been fixed, my
root partition has taken significant but not sweeping damage. Most
binaries still work, but a few don't, such as df, cat, and mount. I
don't know precisely how much was damaged, nor do I know an easy method
of determining this.
That said, is there any way of forcing apt to reinstall all installed
packages or something? From what I can tell, upgrade and dist-upgrade
only reinstall changed packages. Or perhaps I can install the potato
base and use my existing apt database to tell it what packages to
install? What is the recommended way of recovering such a broken
system?
Thanks,
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