Recovering deleted system files and reinstalling packages on Ubuntu
Submitted by jacob on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 9:24amI ran an installation program using sudo that, after asking where the current version was, which was /usr/bin/, completely emptied that directory.
This should be a reminder that, as secure and stable as Linux is, it is still susceptible to user error and bad software.
For those that do not know, /usr/bin/ is a very important directory in which many if not most of the important system programs are stored. This is the equivelant of deleting the System32 directory in Windows.