Re: reinstall all packages
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> 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 ?
This isn't in aptitude, but it might work...I'm excluding dpkg and apt
because they would be needed for the script. I'm POSITIVE there are more
you would need to exclude to make sure you don't break things. You
probably want to get a list of everything apt and dpkg depend on and
exclude those in the egrep section.
for pkg in `dpkg --get-selections|awk '{print $1}'| egrep -v
'(dpkg|apt)'`; do dpkg --force-all --purge $pkg; apt-get install $pkg; done
Make sure you backup what you can before you do the above script. I
haven't tested it and I'm sure it'll break stuff.
Regards,
Tod Detre
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