[SLUG] Visual Linux Recovery tool ?

[Rod Butcher]

Is there any newbie-friendly emergency recovery  tool  out there ? By 
that I mean something that will run from the bootup command line, 
without X, but has a Gui, allows the user to browse & mount partitions & 
directories, copy & edit files etc in some sort of visual mode. I 
realize that experienced users can do all this from the command line but 
I'm a newbie still, I need a tool like Nautilus combined with a 
partition tool.
Background to this is that I clobbered my Perl interpreter and because 
my X login uses Perl somewhere I was locked out. I spent ages messing 
about from  the command line restoring the Perl interpreter.  I'm sure 
something similar will happen again...
thanks
Rod
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