On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote:
> 1: Should I tar /etc before this and overwrite it again afterwards? If
> so, are there any other directories I should do the same to?
Unless you have made a lot of modifications, no. Of course, if you had made
modifications, you'd have done so via local files under $HOME.
> 2: Is there a way to only reinstall packages with files in /usr? For
> example, kernel-sources* has files placed in /usr, but kernel-image* do not.
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' | xargs apt-get --reinstall install
Should do it for you.
-- Thomas Adam
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