On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:23:19AM -0400, Brian Victor wrote: > Due to an intermittent hard drive error which has since been fixed, my > root partition has taken significant but not sweeping damage. Most > binaries still work, but a few don't, such as df, cat, and mount. I > don't know precisely how much was damaged, nor do I know an easy method > of determining this. > > That said, is there any way of forcing apt to reinstall all installed > packages or something? From what I can tell, upgrade and dist-upgrade > only reinstall changed packages. Or perhaps I can install the potato > base and use my existing apt database to tell it what packages to > install? What is the recommended way of recovering such a broken > system?
Probably someone on debian-user would know better, this is not a powerpc question. If I were trying to do this (but I'm no expert!), I would try something like dpkg -S `ls /bin` | sed 's/:.*$//' | sort | uniq > package_list_bin dpkg -S `ls /sbin` | sed 's/:.*$//' | sort | uniq > package_list_sbin to see what packages are involved, and then edit package_list into a script that would apt-get remove and apt-get install them. It would probably be dangerous to do them all at once. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
