Corrupt database OR How to get back applications without reinstallation

[Sebastian Reinhardt]

Am 29.03.2013 19:34, schrieb Christ van Willegen:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Sebastian Reinhardt
> <snr at lmv-hartmannsdorf.de> wrote:
>> I played a little bit with my "Moko" an it hand up complete (frozen). So I
>> rebooted and got an message about an corrupted database. Qtmoko was backing
>> up the database and created a new one.
>> Now, the installed apps are gone, but still there (I can start i.e. navit
>> from console). How can I create/ get back the shortcuts in menu without
>> reinstalling all apps?
> That would involve re-creating the .desktop files that came with the apps...
>
> _presumably_ the .deb files that are installed when installing an app
> contain these. Does apt-get know that (i.e.) navit is still installed?
>
> Christ van Willegen
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>
Yes, thats the point! "apt" knows the packages:

root at neo:~# apt-get install qtmoko-navit -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
qtmoko-navit is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
root at neo:~#

I do not like to reinstall the packages, because I had installed all 
games, all gps- apps, all utilities...

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Regards

Sebastian Reinhardt