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[Derek Broughton]

Oliver Grawert wrote:

> hi,
> Am Mittwoch, den 25.06.2008, 16:18 +0200 schrieb Donny George:
> 
>>  need to work with. is there any way at all to roll back the changes
>> made
> no, you cant roll them back but overwrite what they overwrote, on
> commandline you could try the following (but as i said that will
> probably not clean up enough and leave a lot of cruft)
> 
> dpkg -l|grep xserver |grep ^ii
> 
> will give you a list of all installed xorg related packages ...
> now you could take the package names and run:
> 
> sudo apt-get install --reinstall <packagename>
> 

Oli, yes he deserves this, but surely you know better.

# sudo aptitude reinstall ~ixorg

One command, one line.  If he's _really_ lucky, it could even work...
-- 
derek