Thanks Gavin for your help!
I managed to restore my system!!
What I did, was use "dpkg --get-selections" to find out what packages were
installed on my system. I redirected this to a file and then edited it.
I turned it into a script which ran
apt-get --reinstall install <list of packages>
on every package of the system. I broke the list into several chuncks and
did the above apt-get on each chunk.
Anyway, I believe the above process should have restored my system to
fully working order. Certainly it seems to be working.
Hopefully this email will be helpful if anyone else experiences the same
problem.
By the way, is there any way of setting up an "undelete" for averting this
kind of disaster? My Dad mentioned that Novell Netware has an undelete
which basically puts off really deleting stuff for about 5 days --- unless
it has to because of lack of space. This sounds like a _very_ useful
feature.
Cheers,
Mark.
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