Re: apt-get reinstall all

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Michael De Nil 

| I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get
| that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system.
| I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir sometimes, ;)
| I think it's now real hard to reinstall every package installed ...

dpkg -l  | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --reinstall install

should work.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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