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how to recover /usr/bin

Asked by Mario Wimmer

I have accidentally delete /usr/bin. how can i recover/repair the system files in /usr/bin.
thanks

best regards
mario

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Wow thats a massive mistake. You may be able to copy it from the liveCD to the internal partition but its 100Mb in size so is a fair chunk of the OS. It may work.

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Mario Wimmer (wimmer) said : 		#2

this is what i have already done. I booted the 10.04 cd with the try it option and then copied to the hd but it doesn't work.
when i boot from my hd i bring the system up in the cmd mode but i can't execute a lot of commands.
no vi, passwd (to enable root user), apt-get, ....
any other ideas?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

I have some idea but it might come to a not well working system so please save your home dir data and reinstall Ubuntu, i think is the best and quick way...

I hope you NOT usually use the root user...

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Mario Wimmer (wimmer) said : 		#4

i never use the root user but in this situation sudo is not working too. so i tried to enable the root user to have more permissions,access.
however - i will install my system new.

thanks

br
Mario

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

ok so please close this question...

Thank you

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Mario Wimmer (wimmer) said : 		#6