On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > Hi all... > > I recently ran into some, uhm, minor hard disk problems that sent my > /usr/share to kingdom come, along with /home, but that's another story. > Failing to find a simple way to reinstall packages with data in > /usr/share or plain and simple all packages, I reinstalled the whole > system. (OK, this was probably necessary anyway because perl was done > for...) > > Is there an easy way to reinstall all packages? Perhaps a tool that > flags all packages as "reinst-required" or something? > > -- > Got Backup?
I think 'dpkg --get-selections;' & 'dpkg --set-selecections does this. I haven't used them myself so I can't say for sure. 'man dpkg' -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
