Re: Brute force reinstall
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 20:16, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to reinstall all packages? Perhaps a tool that
> > flags all packages as "reinst-required" or something?
>
> 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'
Is there a state that tells the package management to reinstall? "reinstall"
doesn't work and the manpage doesn't really help either.
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