How to reinstall with available packages ?

["Benjamin F. Zhou" <zhoub@fisci.com>]

Hi,

since initial X installation didn't work. I downloaded the 3.3.6 from xfree86.org
and override the one from debian. It is worse, I got quite a few Segmentation
Faults.

Now I want to back-up to my debian-X already downloaded packages. So I have to
use dselect to remove them and then install again or can I just specify where the
packages are and let dpkg or similar do the reinstall?

I tried "dpkg-deb -x *.deb", but it doesnt work. remove and reinstall through
dselect would be a very tedious job.

any suggestion?

Thank you all
Ben