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07-19-2007, 04:14 AM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: slackware
Posts: 56
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browsers are dead
can someone tell me how to reinstall firefox and all of it's depedndencies from scratch?? i did rm /usr/ -fr by accident and now browsers dont word. firefox gives segfault :S
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07-19-2007, 04:34 AM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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if you deleted /usr then browsers are the last of your problems. you might as well just reinstall, as nothing will ever work again.
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07-19-2007, 06:44 AM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: slackware
Posts: 56
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heh, i did that 
ok now, but i'll never name my dir usr without chrooting again  |
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07-19-2007, 06:46 AM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
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heh, yeah, be careful with chroot environments!
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