Re: Brute force reinstall
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I recently ran into some, uhm, minor hard disk problems that sent my
> /usr/share to kingdom come, along with /home, but that's another story.
> Failing to find a simple way to reinstall packages with data in
> /usr/share or plain and simple all packages, I reinstalled the whole
> system. (OK, this was probably necessary anyway because perl was done
> for...)
>
> Is there an easy way to reinstall all packages? Perhaps a tool that
> flags all packages as "reinst-required" or something?
>
> --
> Got Backup?
I think 'dpkg --get-selections;' & 'dpkg --set-selecections does this. I
haven't used them myself so I can't say for sure. 'man dpkg'
--
Greg Madden
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