<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"> Hi,<br> I inadvertently, tragically, uninstalled a bunch of packages on<br>my Ubuntu 8.04, including some things necessary for both<br>synaptic and a network connection.<br> So, short of doing a brand-new install, is there a way to<br>salvage this system? I'm booted up now on the Ubuntu 8.04<br>install DVD, so can I either<br>a) install the packages I need from the DVD to my hard drive,<br>perhaps targeting a different relative path where I would have<br>mounted my hard drive, like say "/mnt/usr" and so forth.<br>or<br>b) manually install the bare minimum of tools manually<br>on hard drive, and put the rest packages I need on the hard <br>drive, then boot up in the hard drive and install those<br>pre-positioned packages with some form of
simple<br>command-line package management?<br><br>Thanks very much - Ed <br></div><br>
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