Re: V?: aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:57:07AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 08:22:15AM +0100, Paul Csanyi <csanyipal@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> > 2008/1/12, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>:
> > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:47:21PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
> > > > 2008/1/9, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>:
> > > > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > If what you asked for really worked, then you would loose the main
> > > > > benefit of aptitude: keeping track of shifting dependancies and cruft
> > > > > controll.  Everything would appear to be automatically installed.
> > > >
> > > > After all, I use aptitude to reinstall everything.
> > > >
> > >
> > > You mean that you mark __every__ package as manually installed?
> > 
> > No, I mean I used aptitude from a visual interface and there
> > search for the installed packages. When I find one, I hit Shift + L
> > to mark it for reinstall.

There should be no searching since the aptitude UI separates packags
into installed, uninstalled...

Just select all the installed as a group.

> > 
> > If I mark too many packages, it happen that that aptitude can't
> > to reinstall them all together.
> 
>   What do you mean by this?
> 
>   Daniel