On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Louis W. Erickson wrote: > I have a desire to get dselect to reinstall every package that I have > installed, from my known-clean CD-rom. > > (I've had a security issue arise, and don't know the extent of the > possible changes.) > > I don't want to have to remove every package, or to upgrade to a new > version of Debian; I'm very happy with the packages I have installed. > > Is there a way to get dselect to overwrite files with the same version, > instead of skipping them?
Mount the cd, cd to main/binary-i386 and type: dpkg -iGROB stable/main/binary-i386 When dpkg is finished, do the same for contrib/binary-i386 (and non-free/binary-i386 if that's on your cd as well.) When you run dselect, it does something very much alike, but it runs dpkg with the additional switch -E aka --skip-same-version, which makes it skip packages that you've already installed. You can read some of these things in the dpkg manpage or by typing dpkg --help. Cheers, Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
