How can I fix a very broken Ubuntu installation without losing data?

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Published on 2012-05-22T11:36:45Z Indexed on 2012/11/15 11:25 UTC
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Okay guys, I was installing a program (I do not remember the name). When I did sudo apt-get update I was given missing dependencies. It told me to sudo apt-get install -f which deleted just about every dependency needed for Ubuntu, now I cannot log in or anything, now in GRUB it actually says Debian instead of Ubuntu. I have tons of important data in that partition. Can I some how use the live cd to fix this problem??? I mean like re-install without losing data.

Any help is greatly appreciated!!!

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