Re: erased all XWindows

From: Roberto Sanchez (rcsanchez97_at_yahoo.es)
Date: 02/04/04

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    Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 19:05:31 -0500
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, sam@wdn.com

    Kent West 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.
    >> Thanks.
    >>
    >> sam
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    > You could try tasksel, which would get you quite a bit of it back.
    >
    > I'd probably use dselect or aptitude, and just go marking things for
    > install that look interesting. Then start the download/install and go
    > strum on the guitar for half an hour (or four days, if you're on dial-up).
    >
    > Neither of these is reinstallation one at a time, but you will have to
    > mark one at a time to get a lot of what you want.
    >

    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`).

    Admittedly, this will take a while to donwload and reinstall all the
    packages, but it will ensure that you get all of the packages even if
    they are not part of the X Windows System task.

    HTH,

    -Roberto 

    


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