Re: root crash recovery

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:53:08 +0300, Al Nikolov <al@iac.spb.ru> wrote:
> No, i would to recreate bin, sbin, lib, etc - all my root filesystem - with
> files installed from 'existing' packages.
> 
> 
> 
> CW Harris wrote:
> 
> > This lists all known packages.  I think what you are wanting is
> > (see dpkg(8)):
> >
> >        To make a local copy of the package selection states:
> >             dpkg --get-selections >myselections
> >
> >        You might transfer this file to another computer, and install it
> >        there with:
> >             dpkg --set-selections <myselections
> >        Note that this will not actually install or remove anything, but
> >        just set the selection state on  the  requested  packages.   You
> >        will  need  some  other  application  to  actually  download and
> >        install the requested packages.  For example,  run  dselect  and
> >        choose "Install".
> 


If you trust your /var/lib/dpkg dir, something like:

dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 == "install" { print $1 }' | xargs
apt-get -y --reinstall install


Andrea