Re: reinstall all packages

2007-09-24 Thread Dallas Foley
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:23:06PM -0400, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: Tod Detre wrote: A less drastic approach, which would not risk breaking anything, would be "apt-get install --reinstall $pkg" in place of the last two steps. I don't know if it would a

Re: reinstall all packages

2007-09-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:23:06PM -0400, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Tod Detre wrote: > A less drastic approach, which would not risk breaking anything, would be > "apt-get install --reinstall $pkg" in place of the last two steps. I don't > know if it would accomplish the sam

Re: reinstall all packages

2007-09-20 Thread Marty
Tod Detre wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I do I force files to be overwritten in aptitude ? Like apt-get --purge remove && apt-get install , but in aptitude. Re-installing in aptitude doesn't overwrite modified files. Is there an option ? This isn't in aptitude, but it

Re: reinstall all packages

2007-09-20 Thread Tod Detre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I do I force files to be overwritten in aptitude ? > Like apt-get --purge remove && apt-get install , but > in aptitude. > Re-installing in aptitude doesn't overwrite modified files. Is there an > option ? This isn't in aptitude, but it might work.

Re: reinstall all packages

2007-09-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
> Patrick Sannes wrote: > >Hell there, > > > >I have had a huge system crash, and recoverd partionaly from it. But a > >part of the stuff is damaged. Now I want to reinstall all the installed > >packages. Can I do that. Then the system is working again after a night > >of downloads. I wonder, i

Re: reinstall all packages

2007-09-19 Thread dfoley
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:30:24PM -0700, dfoley wrote: Patrick Sannes wrote: Hell there, I have had a huge system crash, and recoverd partionaly from it. But a part of the stuff is damaged. Now I want to reinstall all the installed packages. Can I do that. Then the syst

Re: reinstall all packages

2007-09-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:30:24PM -0700, dfoley wrote: > Patrick Sannes wrote: >> Hell there, >> I have had a huge system crash, and recoverd partionaly from it. But a >> part of the stuff is damaged. Now I want to reinstall all the installed >> packages. Can I do that. Then the system is workin

Re: reinstall all packages

2007-09-19 Thread dfoley
Patrick Sannes wrote: Hell there, I have had a huge system crash, and recoverd partionaly from it. But a part of the stuff is damaged. Now I want to reinstall all the installed packages. Can I do that. Then the system is working again after a night of downloads. Thanks Patrick Sannes I

Re: Reinstall all packages

2003-08-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
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 *'? Ye

Re: Reinstall all packages

2003-08-06 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 10:30, Philipp Leusmann 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 *'? If you can get aptitude to run