how to save back /bin

[Avi Greenbury]

Arvind S Raj wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:17 PM, vichy <vichy.kuo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I don't want to to reinstall my system and I just want to know is
> > there easiest way to restore /bin/*.
> > Appreciate your help,
> 
> 
> Easiest is to reinstall. /home will remain unaffected.

Just to be sure, /home will remain unaffected if you specifically tell
the installer to not affect it (which is rather easy, but the default
action is to clobber it).

> You could backup your installed applications before you reinstall so
> restoring is easy.

Yes,

dpkg --get-selections 

will get a list of those packages you have installed, so if you do

dpkg --get-selections > somefile

and then copy somefile to somewhere safe, once you've installed you can
put it back and do

dpkg --set-selections < somefile

and it'll set dpkg up to reinstall all of those packages onto the new
install once you do a 

apt-get update
apt-get -u dselect-upgrade


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Avi