On 28/01/07, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 03:48 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 01:49 +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > I could write a small shell script which grabs the content of "rpm > > -qa" and run an "rpm -Uvh --force $name*" for each line, but then I'll > > have a nightmare with dependencies..... > > rpm has an option -F : "Freshen". given a list of packages, it will only > install packages that are already installed and their dependencies. > You could simply cd to the RPMS directory of your DVD, and rpm -Fhv * My question - how to do the same in Debian?
"aptitude reinstall" sounds like it should help here. Interactively you can just select the "-- Install Packages" line and hit "L" --Amos
