Re: Reinstalling Debian -- how can I be useful?

2004-04-24 Thread David P James
On Sat 24 April 2004 20:23, Carl Fink wrote: > I'm installing a new hard disk on my tower. This seems like a good > time to reinstall Debian. > > I use Sarge right now, but let me ask: what would be the most useful > to the people trying to get the new release out? If I document a > Sarge instal

Re: Reinstalling Debian

2001-07-12 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Thank you very much. I used grep to filter out the deinstalled packages. Here's the line that worked. dpkg --get-selections | grep -w install | cut -f1 | / xargs apt-get --reinstall -y install Nikolai. -- |- Escape the-| | Gates of hell. | Debian GNU

Re: Reinstalling Debian

2001-07-12 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:52:29PM +0200, Armin Joellenbeck wrote: > > > > I would like to reinstall all packages with > > apt-get install "package-name" --reinstall > > > > Is there an easier way to reinstall all packages? > > i.e. Instead of package-name use a text file which > > specifies a

Re: Reinstalling Debian

2001-07-12 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
> > I would like to reinstall all packages with > apt-get install "package-name" --reinstall > > Is there an easier way to reinstall all packages? > i.e. Instead of package-name use a text file which > specifies all my installed packages? > Might be something like this one: $ dpkg --get-