On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:52:29PM +0200, Armin Joellenbeck wrote:
> >
> > I would like to reinstall all packages with
> > apt-get install "package-name" --reinstall
> >
> > Is there an easier way to reinstall all packages?
> > i.e. Instead of package-name use a text file which
> > specifies all my installed packages?
> >
>
> Might be something like this one:
>
> $ dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | \
> xargs apt-get --reinstall install
>
> No warranty, you should always have backups available.
Indeed you should. The basic idea is allright, but the above incantation
will also list packages marked "deinstall". You would next reinstall
them forcefully, regardless of any depends or conflicts. Suppose you
have some old package marked deinstall, because it was replaced: by some
newer package. If this package is still in the archive, but is conflicted
by some important package on your system, the important package will be
kicked out, because of the conflicts: ...
dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 ~ /^install$/ { print $1 }'
Will only print the ones marked "install".
Cheers,
Joost
