Daniel Johnson wrote: > Last night I was doing a long overdue update on a system I use mostly > for learning. Many things must have gone horribly wrong during the > update as a result of all of the segfaults, but aptitude seemed to > think it was a success. I'm not sure what all is broken, but I know > that X for sure is broken, and no amount of forcing reinstallation of > packages has worked so far. > > What I want to do is two fold. I want to tell debian to just go > ahead, and try to reinstall everything, as it is probably still in the > package cache, and I can't think of any other way to make sure all > files got saved in place, and that the scripts in the packages got > executed. And I want to check for stray files that may not have been > deleted due to something like a segfault when it was attempting to rm > a file. > > I feel like there has got to be some tools to do this kind of thing, > but I haven't been able to figure out what can do either of those > tasks yet after several hours of trying to figure it out on my own.
Well, one simple thing is to run: $ sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb But there's no guarantee that will fix it; it seems like using a sledgehammer on a nail to me. For stray files...that's tougher. You might look into the tiger package, but you might end up having to do a lot of manual removal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]