reinstall
Is there some way to get apt to re-download and re-install ALL packages
installed on the system? I am not looking for an upgrade, but a reinstall.
Should I just write some script to get a list of installed packages and xargs
them to 'apt-get --reinstall install' or is there some way to specify all of the
installed packages automagically?
For the curious, the reason I ask is that I installed debian on a machine with
an erratic nic that was handily corrupting stuff as it went, and a number of
things are a touch unreliable (occasional segfaults). So I want to reinstall it
all.
Tom
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