On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:28:46PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > Is there some way to get apt to re-download and re-install ALL > packages installed on the system? I am not looking for an upgrade, > but a reinstall. Should I just write some script to get a list of > installed packages and xargs them to 'apt-get --reinstall install' or > is there some way to specify all of the installed packages > automagically?
# dpkg --get-selections "*" >/myselections # cd /etc ; tar cvzf ../etc.tar.gz * # cd / ... move myselections and etc.tar.gz into safe place. Reinstall. (Just minimum) # dselect update # dpkg --get-selections < /whereever/myselections # dselect install # apt-getupdate; apt-get install mc ... Use MC to browse old etc in etc.tar.gz and configure new system :) > For the curious, the reason I ask is that I installed debian on a > machine with an erratic nic that was handily corrupting stuff as it > went, and a number of things are a touch unreliable (occasional > segfaults). So I want to reinstall it all. Good luck. My web page below has many hints handling broken upgrades. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
