Re: reinstall

[Andrea Vettorello <dnc@thctribe.net>]

On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 08:15, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:28:46PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote:
> > 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?
> 
>  # dpkg --get-selections "*" >/myselections
>  # cd /etc ; tar cvzf ../etc.tar.gz *
>  # cd /
>  ... move myselections and etc.tar.gz into safe place.
> 
> Reinstall. (Just minimum)
>  # dselect update
>  # dpkg --get-selections < /whereever/myselections
>  # dselect install

Not to bug you, but in this case could be better using "apt-get
--reinstall dselect-upgrade" instead of "dselect install"? 

I could be wrong, i've only used dselect years ago for the first
installation ;)


Andrea

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