HI, replace your files by looking up the dpkg database, for the installed packages then expand the debs using tar? to expand only the /usr directory.
Then back up. Best Regards, Peter Firmstone. On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Gabor Zoltan Csejtey wrote: > I'm trying to compile perl-5.6.0 under potato. > There're some errors relating to the lib/ndbm and lib/anydbm. > I tried to comment out these. Finally I changed the > debian/rules and > debian/config.debian > > and added to the Configure: > -Ui_ndbm > > in the perl-5.6.0 source directory. STRANGE thing happend!!! > My whole /usr/bin directory was wiped out only two directories > remained there: > > libc5-compat > mh > > I was running dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b as root from the perl source > directory which is located in a different location than /usr. > Could the dpkg-buildpackage erase the contents of /usr/bin ? Or > something else happend? > The other libraries weren't effected I think. > > Anyway I downloaded the base2_2.tgz with netscape which is installed > under /usr/local and put the /usr/bin/* files from the archive into > /usr/bin. > > Is there a way to rebuild the other parts of the system? I mean to get > the missing binaries under /usr/bin? > > Gabor > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >