On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Alex V. Toropov wrote: > >From: Brent Buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Alex V. Toropov wrote: >> >> >After power failure some files done away :-( >> >This files are not necessary but I wish them to be back. >> >TIA Alex >> > >> Have you checked lost+found for the missing files? >> >> Their names will be lost, so run file(1) on them to determine what they >> used to be. 8) >> >> Brent > >Things are bad there (in /lost+found) >so the question is about the ability of apt/dkg & etc to do this trick >I mean downloading necessary debs and extracting only missing files and >may be changed files (with promting). >
debsums -s can generate a list of missing/wrong md5sum files dpkg -S file will tell you what package to uninstall reinstall I don't know how to get the output nice and scriptable. Brent
