On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:49:20PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> From then on (sorry, I know of no other way) you will simply have to get a
> list of installed packages (dpkg --get-selections, you can use cut or sed
> and grep or something to cut the list down to just the ones you want) and
> feed the result to apt-get install.. If you do it cleverly, you can do it
> on one cmdline.
Actually, dpkg is likely not to want to install them. Answer:
apt-get clean
apt-get -d install `dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 == "install" { print
$1 }'`
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
This will force a reinstall. You just have to hope that upgraded
packages don't break on you.
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