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Re: fixing broken installation

Cross-posted to 2 groups.

Followups directed to: comp.os.linux.advocacy

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On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 19:29:33 +0000, duncan smith wrote:

> Hello,
>       I made the mistake of allowing aptitude to make changes to (i.e.
> basically nuke) my installation in order to install Skype. It's a recent
> install, so there are no important files on the machine. But I would
> like to fix the installation so that I don't need to set up my e-mail
> accounts etc. all over again.
> 
> Using the installation disk I have managed to get to a terminal
> (following directions at
> http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/how-to-fix-non-bootable-ubuntu-
system.html)
> and reinstall grub2 and unity. I also took the opportunity to install
> Skype - which seems to have worked. Do I need to install anything
> further to be able to (hopefully) boot normally into the machine?
> Ideally I'd like to have all the applications that come with a standard
> installation rather than having to hunt for them individually - but I'm
> not sure if they come under the unity umbrella.
> 
> Am I better off doing a fresh install? If so, will I be able to somehow
> get my home directory copied over to another networked machine? I tried
> this after booting the installation disk, but wasn't sure how to get
> round the file permissions. Presumably that won't be a problem now I'm
> in the terminal, but I'm no expert at the command line. I know it's
> possible to reinstall without overwriting my home directory - but I
> might make a mess of it. Thanks.
> 
> Duncan

I've crossposted your post over to comp.os.linux.advocacy where the Linux 
experts hang their compilers. These guys are amazing because everything 
Linux just seems to work for them, by their own words, so they can surely 
help you out.

You might want to ping William Poaster or Peter Kohlmann as they seem to 
have a more in depth understanding of Linux internals than some of the 
others.

Good luck to you and hopefully one of the experts can help you out.

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fixing broken installation duncan smith <duncan@invalid.invalid> - 2016-01-24 19:29 +0000
  Re: fixing broken installation Penny Tration <fedora_the_explora@asia.com> - 2016-01-24 19:36 +0000
    Re: fixing broken installation mike antipasto <pizzadude@mycomputerrox.org> - 2016-01-24 16:43 -0500
      Hey philo, here is what your fellow Linux users really think about you. mike antipasto <pizzadude@mycomputerrox.org> - 2016-01-25 18:09 -0500
  Re: fixing broken installation Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-01-24 11:46 -0800
    Re: fixing broken installation philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-24 13:58 -0600
      Re: fixing broken installation duncan smith <duncan@invalid.invalid> - 2016-01-24 22:06 +0000
        Re: fixing broken installation Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-01-24 22:42 +0000
          Re: fixing broken installation duncan smith <duncan@invalid.invalid> - 2016-01-25 01:27 +0000
            Re: fixing broken installation Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-01-25 02:07 +0000
        Re: fixing broken installation philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-24 17:38 -0600
          Re: fixing broken installation "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-25 01:35 +0100
            Re: fixing broken installation mike antipasto <pizzadude@mycomputerrox.org> - 2016-01-24 19:38 -0500
  Re: fixing broken installation "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-24 21:56 +0100
    Re: fixing broken installation mike antipasto <pizzadude@mycomputerrox.org> - 2016-01-24 17:16 -0500
    Re: fixing broken installation duncan smith <duncan@invalid.invalid> - 2016-01-24 22:22 +0000
      Re: fixing broken installation "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-24 23:35 +0100
        Re: fixing broken installation "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-25 00:18 +0100
          Re: fixing broken installation duncan smith <duncan@invalid.invalid> - 2016-01-25 01:39 +0000
            Re: fixing broken installation "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-25 10:13 +0100

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