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Asked: 2016-02-26 06:35:29 +0800 CST

How to undo apt-get autoremove

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I just walked into the trap of calling 

sudo apt-get install autoremove

I did it because I was unable to install sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev because of unmet dependencies. Now my ros-indigo installation is broke, opencv is still not installed and I also cannot reinstall it.

When trying to install it I get only 

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I fear that I'm really close to killing my entire package-dependency system. Can someone help me please?

Can I somehow use the file /var/log/apt to reverse the step of deleting ros?

apt

2 Answers

  1. I don't Know if there is any simpler way but if you look at /var/log/apt/history.log you can see what was removed. Just reinstall each package that was removed.

    Using this may save your time

    echo '#!/bin/bash' > restore
echo sudo apt-get install `grep Remove /var/log/apt/history.log | tail -1 | sed -e 's|Remove: ||g' -e 's|([^)]*)||g' -e 's|:[^ ]* ||g' -e 's|,||g'` >> restore
chmod +x restore 
./restore
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  2. If you are using ROS and the other answer does not fix the problem completely, you can go to your workspace and do:

    rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y
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