Needed just a little more googling and I found a hackish solution. using debsums will check the sums of all files as they compare to what the package installed. it will print an error if a file is missing by redirecting the errors to a file I was able to sort out the package names with the nice unixy command: cat debsums.out |awk '{ print $4 }' |sort |uniq > missing.packages then fix them all with another nice unixy command: for each in `cat missing.packages`; do dpkg -r --force-all $each; apt-get install $each; done I hope this will help inspire some people into the power of the command line for good and ill. :) On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 22:33, Bill Warner wrote: > well my /usr/bin directory got deleted. luckily I had access to another > Debian box that was very similar and an nfs mount so I was able to tar > up the /usr/bin directory on the good system and recover it on the > broken system. > > I know the good system didn't have some packages that the now somewhat > fixed system had but I don't know of a dpkg/apt command that can verify > that packages are installed correctly. does anyone know of such a > command? > > thanks -- Bill Warner --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss