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Re: how to reinstall?



On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:19:28PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:22:17PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 02:29:29PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > 
> > >   -  do 'dpkg --set-selections < mypackages' for setting packages
> > >   -  do 'aptitude dselect-upgrade' to install all packages 
> > 
> > I always just run 'aptitude install' for this. Where is the 
> > 'dselect-upgrade' action documented? A quick search through the man page 
> > and the README didn't provide anything related.
> 
> its documented in apt-get. I don't know if it is in aptitude or not.

Running 'aptitude dselect-upgrade' on sid (aptitude is 0.4.7) gets me 
the usage info. So I guess aptitude doesn't know about this. 'install' 
worked just fine for me in the past.

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

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