Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

["Dennis G. Wicks" <wix@eskimo.com>]

Mumia W.. wrote the following on 04/24/2008 12:06 PM:
> On 04/24/2008 11:40 AM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> > [...]
> > I don't know if I have a system that qualifies as a "good" system 
> > right now! :-(
>
> What do you mean when you say they don't have a "full" set of packages?

Things don't act the same on every system
> How do you know that packages are missing?
eg. in file manager I double-click a zip file and 
nothing happens. There is no archive manager now. But 
there was!

Iceweasel just shuts down on one machine, not another.

Wine doesn't open on one system anymore.

And other strange things like that.
> How do you know which packages are missing?
I don't know which packages are missing! I just know 
that _some_ of them are. And there's the rub!
>

I can usually figure out how to fix the problems that 
come up, but that doesn't get all of them fixed.

I am tired of running around with a fly-swatter. I need 
a *big* can of ~raid~!!

TIA!
Dennis