Accidentally deleted a dependency file. What do I do now?

Question

I was recently debugging qt installed on the latest ubuntu and during by debugging efforts I accidentally deleted qt5widgets.so . Now, I have no idea to how to recover it as I already re installed qt, checked for broken dependencies with apt get and checked the trash bin which was empty. I don't know what to do now rather than getting a fresh OS and doing it all from the beginning.

Thanks in advance,
Cents

@cmak.fr I already tried that but with no luck. Do you have any specific dependency I should try to use? — Cents02, Sep 15 '19 at 17:01
Ubuntu 18.10 is End of Life, thus not supported anymore. Please consider upgrading to a supported release. — mook765, Sep 15 '19 at 18:59
Possible duplicate of How do I find the package that provides a file? — karel, Sep 15 '19 at 21:01

waltinator · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-15T18:18:21.183

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You can find out which package thinks it has qt5widgets.so with

dpkg -S qt5widgets.so

Then, force the reinstallation of that package with

sudo apt-get install --reinstall packagename

edited Sep 15 '19 at 18:18

answered Sep 15 '19 at 18:12

waltinator

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It can't find any package with qt5widgets.so – Cents02 Sep 15 '19 at 18:52
look at https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=disco§ion=all&arch=any&keywords=qt5widgets.so&searchon=contents – waltinator Sep 16 '19 at 03:06

Accidentally deleted a dependency file. What do I do now?

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