"jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've recenlty posted some upgrade woes (Potato to Woody) ... I've noticed > that I have quite a few packages missing that I expected to be present. I > seem to have limited fonts in X for one thing (no sans serif, for example).
make sure you haven't run into the recent bug with fonts.alias files going missing all of a sudden (happened for misc fonts for me a couple other people recently). To fix this, run apt-get --reinstall install xfonts-base then restart X, if running. > The Gnome Control Panel was missing. A few other things, too ... > > Is there a way to grab all this stuff at once? Like install everything for > Gnome and X that the initial installer would install without blowing away > the existing config? > try running tasksel, there're X and Gnome tasks under "junk" > Also, I'm a bit unfamiliar with all the packages ... there might be more > missing than just X related stuff. I know the Debian installer installs a > lot of stuff without mentioning specific package names (it might in the > advanced mode which I haven't used) ... is there a way to get a list of > packages the installer installs by default? And also the packages that > correlate with the general names it uses? > if you run apt-get with the -u option, it should give you a list of packages that it's about to upgrade and prompts you whether or not to proceed. I don't know how to do this automatically, I usually just add the -u by hand... I suppose you could set up an alias in your shell profile. Read the man pages for dpkg, apt-get and apt-cache for more useful ways to see package info (you might also want to visit http://packages.debian.org). HTH
