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I have inadvertently overwritten file /usr/bin/ld. How can I reinstall this file?

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dlocate is quite useful in this case to know for which package it came from:

$ dlocate /usr/bin/ld
binutils: /usr/bin/ld.gold
binutils: /usr/bin/ld.bfd
binutils: /usr/bin/ld
libc-bin: /usr/bin/ldd

As it can be seen above, /usr/bin/ld is available through binutils package. Hence, you should be able to get it back by reinstalling that package:

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall binutils
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...or one can use dpkg -S /usr/bin/ld instead of dlocate. – arrange Dec 11 '11 at 18:13

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