on Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:30:20AM +0200, Philipp Leusmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > due to a harddisk-failure many files were corrupted. Far too many to > reinstall them manually. > Is there a way to reinstall all installed packages? something like 'apt-get > intall --reinstall *'?
Yep.
In my case (wiped out my root partition due to a rookie move two weeks
ago, recovered most, but not everything, from lost+found), I dumped my
package list to a file and fetched it. This had the added benefit that
when conflicts showed up when trying to install/configure packages, I
could winnow down this file until everything worked. As I was only
concerned with packages touching /bin /sbin /dev /etc /lib /root, I
generated the first package list with a 'dpkg -S' query, suitably
trimmed, sorted, and made unique.
# generate package list
dpkg --get-selections | grep ' install' > reinstall-packages
# fetch new/updated debs.
apt-get -duy install --reinstall $( cat reinstall-packages )
# Install
apt-get -uy install --reinstall $( cat reinstall-packages )
...editing out say, half of reinstall-packages if this doesn't complete
successfully, then bringing these back in. I actually used a sed
command:
sed -e '1,40' reinstall-packages
...say, to attempt install on packages 1-40. If these ran successfully,
I'd delete those lines from the file and try another set.
Wash, rinse, complete.
Peace.
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