On 2011-05-27 Dario Hornsteiner <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> After I couldn't reinstall software-center with apt-get, I tried to
> reinstall all packages.
> It says invalid value for -n option.
[...]
> dario@ubuntu:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep "\binstall" | awk '{print $1}'
> > /tmp/dpkg.log
> dario@ubuntu:~$ sudo xargs -nl apt-get --reinstall install -y <
> /tmp/dpkg.log
> xargs: Ungültiger Wert für die "-n" Option.
[...]
Not very surprising, "l" (lower case letter L) is not a number, I guess
you want the number 1 there.
cu andreas
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