Removed a file by accident

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 16:57 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Em sábado 09 outubro 2010, Knight escreveu:
> > On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 09:15 -0500, C de-Avillez wrote:
> > > On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:16:26 +0200
> > > 
> > > Knight <knightotp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > In order to find out to which package a file belongs you can (out
> > > > of the box) use:
> > > > 
> > > > dpkg -S /sbin/restart
> > > 
> > > dpkg only searches on installed packages. A more generic search can
> > > be done via 'apt-file'. To install it, 'sudo apt-get install
> > > apt-file'.
> > 
> > Sorry first paragraph has typo's.
> > Should be:
> > 
> > And you want to tell me that you have files on your computer that you
> > didn't install and that don't belong to any packages or are _not_
> > placed there by yourself or your users? (I cannot think of any on my
> > own systems)
> 
> No, it is the other way around. The OP said he had removed the file 
> accidentally. So, the file was not there anymore and therefore dpkg 
> could not tell you the package which had installed that file.

Well shucks, I cannot find the link to the explanation in my history,
but I did find my Jennifer Tilly pics. So, it wasn't a complete waste of
time. If anyone knows the command line well enough, there is a parameter
to make dpkg ignore that a file is missing and to install the package
without the check. THEN the missing file gets added back from the
package. Ric


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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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