On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 11:33:50PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> On 2/3/25 21:10, Mike Castle wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM Loren M. Lang <lor...@north-winds.org> wrote:
> > > Basically, I want to identify any software that I couldn't reinstall on
> > > a fresh install of Debian from the official Debian archives.
> > Will this work as a starting place for you?
> >
> > comm -23 <(dpkg-query -W -f '${Package} ${Version}\n' | sort -u)
> > <(apt-cache dumpavail | awk '/^Package:/ {package = $NF} /^Version:/
> > {version = $NF} /^$/ {print package, version}' | sort -u)
>
> looking for any clue that might fix my busted bookworm install, however this
> will not execute, either as me or sudo: error reported is no permission for
> /dev/fd/63 when in fact /dev/fd/ only contains 0, 1, 2, 3 as subdirs.
>
apt list '~o'
That's probably a good start as listed in another message in the thread.
Try that one as well.
If you have so many busted packages, come back to the list.
All the very best, as ever,
Andy
(amaca...@debian.org)
>
> > .
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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