Re: fixing broken installation

From	mike antipasto <pizzadude@mycomputerrox.org>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject	Re: fixing broken installation
Date	2016-01-24 19:38 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 01:35:02 +0100, Dirk T. Verbeek wrote:

> Op 25-01-16 om 00:38 schreef philo:
>> On 01/24/2016 04:06 PM, duncan smith wrote:
>>> On 24/01/16 19:58, philo wrote:
>>>> On 01/24/2016 01:46 PM, Mike Easter wrote:
>>>>> duncan smith wrote:
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixing a broekn installation might be educational and therefore
>>>>> worthwhile, but setting up your email accounts 'all over again' will
>>>>> likely be much MUCH faster.  What does that take, 5 minutes?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yep.
>>>>
>>>> I am a firm believer in fixing rather than reinstalling but since it's a
>>>> new install I'd probably just do it again since it will probably be
>>>> faster.
>>>
>>> I might do that. But there's also a whole bunch of Python stuff that I
>>> had to install via the command line (in some cases after fixing the
>>> setup.py files), and some videos that took a while to transcode etc. It
>>> would take a good while to get up and running again.
>>>
>>> Duncan
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> What I'd so then is simply boot to the command line and use  sudo
>> apt-get uninstall to get rid of what broke your system.
>>
>>
>> In the 15 years I've been using Linux that saved me a major headache once
> 
> Just a pity that 15.10 makes it exceedingly difficult to boot to the 
> command line, the root shell is now the closest and it has limitations 
> like no easy networking.

So run something else. It's not like there isn't choice in the Linux world.
Only another 999 distributions to try. That should keep you busy for a
while. lol!

Thread

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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