those instructions in your post look like what I've posted on the .deb packaging thread i didn't know they cause an issue...

since you can still install apps can you do in terminal as root:

apt-get install binutils

You would need the Harmattan SDK repo enabled to do it...

If it still doesn't work post here...


P.S. Are you sure you did the tar steps correctly? I did it without issues and i know two others had no problems with it