On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 16:51, Chris Tillman wrote: > 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.
Or apt-get --reinstall install... > It would probably be dangerous to do them all at once. You don't seem very confident in APT... PS: With aptitude, reinstalling all installed packages is very easy. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
