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Repairing a badly damaged package system in Ubuntu

Recently, I did something really stupid and damaged my whole dpkg system. It was pretty bad. I did an “apt-get purge” with a pattern and wildcard and thought it was only going to remove everything around a specific package. It didn’t. It did much much more. Not helping the whole situation was the interrupt I issued when I saw apt going through and yanking stuff that I...

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