I destroyed Linux! LOL

[JREAM]

I was trying to fix a bug and did 'aptitude remove dbus' and then I was going to install it after it uninstalled. Now that didn't go so well as you might imagine!

Since I don't know what dbus is or what Im doing I just woke up to a world of hurt! LOL!
Well this is good learning, I had a LOT setup but I really want to figure out how this stuff works.

I personally prefer to use the Terminal, but I better be careful.

So for future learning, if I remove something like that is there a way to get it back? Because I once I was in the 'full-screen, non-GUI terminal' I couldn't access the internet so I figured I was out of luck. (No ethernet cable either).

[Meskarune]

This might be of some help. I would suggest learning how to restore backups via command line on top of the GUI version. This way if things get messed up, you have a way to restore them.

http://backintime.le-web.org/

[sandyd]

I was trying to fix a bug and did 'aptitude remove dbus' and then I was going to install it after it uninstalled. Now that didn't go so well as you might imagine!

Since I don't know what dbus is or what Im doing I just woke up to a world of hurt! LOL!
Well this is good learning, I had a LOT setup but I really want to figure out how this stuff works.

I personally prefer to use the Terminal, but I better be careful.

So for future learning, if I remove something like that is there a way to get it back? Because I once I was in the 'full-screen, non-GUI terminal' I couldn't access the internet so I figured I was out of luck. (No ethernet cable either).
grab dbus of another computer (download links below)

32 bit :


http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.2.16-0ubuntu9_i386.deb
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.2.16-0ubuntu9_i386.deb

64 bit: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dbus/dbus_0.60-6ubuntu8.4_amd64.deb
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p.s. too lazy to list all of them. their all here
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dbus/
copy onto cd and bring it over to the computer


sudo mount /dev/cdrom0
cd /media/cdrom*
sudo dpkg -i *.deb