On 9/27/12 9:58 PM, lars nooden wrote:
> If a bunch of packages have been uninstalled, what is an automated way
> of reinstalling them using /var/lib/dpkg/status-old or
> /var/backups/dpkg.status.* ?
>
> I see a lot of material mentioning status but nothing about precisely
> how to use it.
>
> Regards,
> /Lars
>
There might have been a better way to extract the list of packages but
this seems to have done the job:
dpkg --clear-selections
awk '$1=="Status:" && $2=="install" {print PACKAGE "
install";PACKAGE=""};$1 == "Package:" {PACKAGE=$2}'
/var/backups/dpkg.status.0 | dpkg --set-selections
apt-get dselect-upgrade
Regards,
/Lars
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