Re: apt-get reinstall all

2002-01-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:09:14PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 12:37, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > Have you ever seen that silly perl script that Mandrake passes as an > > "apt like" package fetcher + installer? "urpmi". Hahah. > > What makes Debian's package management

Re: apt-get reinstall all

2002-01-08 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 12:37, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > Have you ever seen that silly perl script that Mandrake passes as an > "apt like" package fetcher + installer? "urpmi". Hahah. What makes Debian's package management great has not so much to do with apt itself as it does with the high qual

Re: apt-get reinstall all

2002-01-08 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Robin" == Robin Putters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> btw: I really like apt & that's why I try to help you make it better, :) >> Robin> Who doesn't like it ? :) The competition? Have you ever seen that silly perl script that Mandrake passes as an "apt like" pack

Re: apt-get reinstall all

2002-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* (Jacob Elder) | On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:05:26PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > dpkg -l | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --reinstall install | > | > should work. | | Not unless every package name is <16 characters. COLUMNS=300 dpkg -l | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --r

Re: apt-get reinstall all

2002-01-06 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 12:05, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > dpkg -l | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --reinstall install dpkg --get-selections | egrep '[[:space:]]install$' | cut -f 1 | xargs apt-get install --reinstall

Re: apt-get reinstall all

2002-01-06 Thread Robin Putters
> I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get > that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system. > I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir sometimes, ;) > I think it's now real hard to reinstall every package installed ... > You cou

Re: apt-get reinstall all

2002-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:44:23PM +0100, Michael De Nil wrote: > I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get > that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system. > I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir sometimes, ;) > I think it's

Re: apt-get reinstall all

2002-01-06 Thread Jacob Elder
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:05:26PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Michael De Nil > > | I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get > | that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system. > | I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir

Re: apt-get reinstall all

2002-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Michael De Nil | I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get | that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system. | I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir sometimes, ;) | I think it's now real hard to reinstall every package insta

Re: apt-get reinstall all

2002-01-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:44:23PM +0100, Michael De Nil wrote: > I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get > that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system. You can use "apt-get --reinstall install " There are a few possibilities to create th

Re: apt-get reinstall all

2002-01-06 Thread Erich Schubert
> I was just thinking that it would be great to have something in apt-get > that get 'reinstall' or 'repaire' all packages installed on the system. > I don't think I am the only one who rm *'s a wrong dir sometimes, ;) > I think it's now real hard to reinstall every package installed ... well, if