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Re: reinstall all packages



On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:30:24PM -0700, dfoley wrote:
> Patrick Sannes wrote:
>> Hell there,
>> I have had a huge system crash, and recoverd partionaly from it. But a 
>> part of the stuff is damaged. Now I want to reinstall all the installed 
>> packages. Can I do that. Then the system is working again after a night of 
>> downloads.
>> Thanks
>> Patrick Sannes
>
> I do I force files to be overwritten in aptitude ?
> Like apt-get --purge remove <package> && apt-get install <package>, but in 
> aptitude.
> Re-installing in aptitude doesn't overwrite modified files. Is there an
> option ?

How about:

aptitude purge <package> && aptitude install <package>

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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