Re: Brute force reinstall (SOLVED)

2003-01-23 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 23 January 2003 14:50, Dale Hair wrote: > If you wish to reinstall all installed packages use aptitude. Go to the > line --- Installed Packages and press L. This will mark every installed > package to be reinstalled. Yep, thanks a lot. Hope I'll never need it (again) :-P -- Got Bac

Re: Brute force reinstall

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:04, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 20:16, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to reinstall all packages? Perhaps a tool that > > > flags all packages as "reinst-required" or somethi

Re: Brute force reinstall

2003-01-23 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 20:16, Greg Madden wrote: > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > Is there an easy way to reinstall all packages? Perhaps a tool that > > flags all packages as "reinst-required" or something? > > I think 'dpkg --get-selections;' & 'dpkg --set-s

Re: Brute force reinstall

2003-01-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > Hi all... > > I recently ran into some, uhm, minor hard disk problems that sent my > /usr/share to kingdom come, along with /home, but that's another story. > Failing to find a simple way to reinstall packages with data in > /usr/share or