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Naveen Reddy Marthala
Asked: 2020-12-30 08:07:59 +0800 CST

accidentally did "rm clear"

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I was deleting some files in a directory and without noticing that there was rm typed, i typed clear to empty the terminal. But, that accidentally deleted the command. I have tried to reinstall it, but to no avail:

naveen@naveen-hp:~$ clear

Command 'clear' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install ncurses-bin

naveen@naveen-hp:~$ sudo apt install ncurses-bin
[sudo] password for naveen:             
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
ncurses-bin is already the newest version (6.2-0ubuntu2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
naveen@naveen-hp:~$ clear

Command 'clear' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install ncurses-bin

naveen@naveen-hp:~$

I am using Ubuntu 20.04LTS with Gnome. How to restore that command now?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    sudo apt install --reinstall ncurses-bin should reinstall all the components, if you removed one.

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