Re: reconfigure ALL packages

[Steve Cooper <stevencooper@isomedia.com>]

Doesn't dpkg -l truncate long package names?  If so the commands below will fail
on a small percentage of packages.

Does anyone know a way to list packages and see the full name?

Cheers,
Steve Cooper

Steeve Lennmark wrote:

> I don't know if there's an command to do that, but this'll probably work.
> dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' | xargs dpkg-reconfigure
>
> // Steeve.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matheson Cameron [mailto:cmatheson3@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: den 8 mars 2001 23:27
> > To: Debian User List
> > Subject: reconfigure ALL packages
> >
> >
> > hey
> >
> > i was just wondering the command to re-configure every
> > package (i screwed my debian up bad)
> >
> > cameron matheson
> >
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